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- orchid of Florida and the Bahamas having showy brightly colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Epidendrum
- Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip
- Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip
- any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants
- any orchid of the genus Psychopsis: spectacular large tiger-striped orchids
How To Use butterfly orchid In A Sentence
- A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side. Alone
- Beautiful orchids such as the endemic giant Cattleya, Cattleya warscewiczii, or the Butterfly orchid Psychopsis papilio, or the Swan orchid Cycnoches chlorochilon or the Holly Spirit orchid Peristeria elata are native to this ecosystem. Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
- But perhaps more alarming is how so many once widespread plants, such as butterfly orchids and corn spurrey, have suffered in the modern landscape.