Accession Data:
Grammatophyllum speciosum Blume
- Common Name: Tiger Orchid
- Family: Orchidaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Indo-China to W. Malesia
- Habitat: lowland rainforest
- Description: Currently considered the world's largest orchid, rare in cultivation due to its enormous size, this plant can produce flowering racemes up to 3m in length and can weigh up to 2 tons. Flowers are unique in that the lower flowers do not posess a lip, and function only as osmophores, that is they emit scent to attract pollinators but are not functional in their own right.
Plants typically only bloom every 2-4 years but can flower over a 2 month period when in bloom.
- Culture: These plants are usually rare in cultivation due to their spacial requirements. Plants require direct sunlight and intermediate to warm temperatures. Keep in temperatures of 75° to 85°F in the day and 55°-6O°F in the night. Plants can tolerate temperatures up to 100°F and as low as 45°F. Plants need to be heavily fertilized during growing season. Pot in sphagnum moss or medium fir bark. Mix should be well drained. Keep area well ventilated. Water frequently in spring to early fall during growth period, but do not keep mix wet and damp. In the winter reduce watering and water when potting media is dried. 5
Accession Data:
- Accession # 201000128
- Source: Andy's Orchids (COS Donation Funds)
- Accession Date: 09-23-2010
- Bench: 4101 - EPI:Epiphyte Tree
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 06-19-2020
- Restrictions:
- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Asparagales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Orchidaceae
- SubFamily: Epidendroideae
- Tribe: Cymbidieae
- SubTribe: Cymbidiinae
References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Laos / Myanmar / Thailand / Vietnam / Borneo / Jawa / Malaya / Sulawesi / Sumatera /
References (external):
- Giant Orchid at Wikipedia. Accessed 23 May 2015.
- Grammatophyllum speciosum at Int'l Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia.
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 23 May 2015.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 23 May 2015
- Grammatophyllum speciosum at Orchids Wiki. Accessed 23 May 2015.
- Repotting the Tiger Orchid at Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. Last accessed 13 October 2015.
- Grammatophyllum speciosum (queen of orchids) at RBG Kew. Last accessed 3 December 2015.
- Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by orchidgalore from New York, USA (Ginormous GrammatophyllumUploaded by Orchi) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 31, 2017.
data regenerated on Sun, 21 Nov 2021 14:19:30 -0500 [bcm v4.0]
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Subfamily Cypripedioideae
Tribe Cypripedieae
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- Paphiopedilinae: Paphiopedilum x harrisianum
- Paphiopedilinae: Paphiopedilum haynaldianum
Subfamily Cypripedioideae
Tribe Phragmipedieae
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium calurum
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium x demetria
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium x dominianum
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium Lemoinierianum
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium longifolium
- Phragmipediinae: Phragmipedium Schroederae
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Arethuseae
- Bletiinae: Bletilla striata
- Chysinae: Chysis bractescens
- Sobraliinae: Sobralia decora x leucantha
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Coelogyneae
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne flaccida
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne lawrenceana
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne mayeriana
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne ovalis
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne pandurata
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne rochussenii
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne speciosa
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne tomentosa
- Coelogyninae: Coelogyne usitana
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum cobbianum
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum convallariiforme
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum convallariiforme
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum glaucum
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum irigense
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum magnum
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum uncatum
- Coelogyninae: Dendrochilum wenzelii
- Coelogyninae: Pholidota imbricata
- Thuniinae: Thunia alba
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Collabieae
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Cymbidieae
- Cymbidiinae: Ansellia africana
- Cymbidiinae: Cymbidium aloifolium
- Cymbidiinae: Cymbidium dayanum 'Bolin'
- Cymbidiinae: Cymbidium finlaysonianum
- Cymbidiinae: Cymbidium sp.
- Cymbidiinae: Grammatophyllum speciosum
- Cymbidiinae: Thecostele alata
- Eulophiinae: Eulophia andamanensis
- Eulophiinae: Eulophia petersii
- Lycastinae: Xylobium variegatum
- Maxillariinae: Bifrenaria inodora
- Maxillariinae: Brasiliorchis schunkeana
- Maxillariinae: Lycaste macrophylla 'Hermarl'
- Maxillariinae: Maxillaria parahybunensis
- Maxillariinae: Maxillariella houtteana
- Maxillariinae: Maxillariella sanguinea
- Maxillariinae: Maxillariella tenuifolia
- Maxillariinae: Maxillariella variabilis
- Maxillariinae: Mormolyca hedwigiae
- Maxillariinae: Mormolyca ringens
- Maxillariinae: Mormolyca rufescens
- Maxillariinae: Ornithidium sophronitis
- Maxillariinae: Trigonidium egertonianum
- Oncidiinae: Brassia jipijapensis
- Oncidiinae: Brassia maculata majus
- Oncidiinae: Brassia verrucosa
- Oncidiinae: Cischweinfia dasyandra
- Oncidiinae: Cuitlauzina pulchella
- Oncidiinae: Lockhartia lunifera
- Oncidiinae: Lockhartia oerstedii
- Oncidiinae: Lockhartia oerstedii
- Oncidiinae: Miltonia clowesii
- Oncidiinae: Miltonia flavescens
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium altissimum
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium maculatum
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium Sharry Baby Sweet Fragrance
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium sphacelatum
- Oncidiinae: Oncidium unidentified
- Stanhopeinae: Acineta chrysantha
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora cassidea
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora histrionica
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora quinquenervis var uncinata
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora rufescens
- Stanhopeinae: Gongora scaphephorus
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea assidensis (tigrina x wardii)
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea costaricensis
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea ecornuta
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea graveolens
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea jenischiana
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea marizana
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea nigripes
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea oculata
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea platyceras
- Stanhopeinae: Stanhopea tigrina var. nigroviolacea
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- Telipogoninae: Trichoceros antennifer
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- Zygopetalinae: Zygopetalum maculatum
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Tribe Dendrobieae
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum affine
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum affine
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum annamense
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum careyanum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum cheiri
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum corolliferum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum elegantulum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum falcatum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum flabellum-veneris
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum flabellum-veneris
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum flammuliferum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum fletcherianum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum gibbosum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum gibbosum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum grandiflorum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum lilacinum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum lobbii
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum longiflorum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum longissimum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum macrochilum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum medusae
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum morotaiense
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum picturatum
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum purpureorhachis
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum roxburghii
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum roxburghii
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum roxburghii
- Bulbophyllinae: Bulbophyllum sandersonii
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium anceps
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium anosmum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium aphyllum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium bifalce
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium chrysotropis
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium x delicatum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium densiflorum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium farmeri
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium hymenanthum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium kingianum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium lindleyi
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium lindleyi
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium moniliforme
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium nakaharae
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium plicatile
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium rigidum
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium speciosum var. hillii
- Dendrobiinae: Dendrobium speciosum var. pedunculatum
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Tribe Epidendreae
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- Laeliinae: Barkeria melanocaulon
- Laeliinae: Brassavola cucullata
- Laeliinae: Brassavola nodosa
- Laeliinae: Brassocattleya 'Star Ruby Xanadu'
- Laeliinae: Cattleya purpurata
- Laeliinae: Cattleya trianae
- Laeliinae: Encyclia advena
- Laeliinae: Encyclia ambigua
- Laeliinae: Encyclia kennedyi
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum magnoliae
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum nocturnum
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum radicans
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum rigidum
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum schlecterianum
- Laeliinae: Epidendrum unidentified
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- Laeliinae: Isabelia pulchella
- Laeliinae: Isochilus carnosiflorus
- Laeliinae: Laelia rubescens
- Laeliinae: Myrmecophila christinae
- Laeliinae: Myrmecophila tibicinis
- Laeliinae: Scaphyglottis confusa
- Laeliinae: Scaphyglottis longicaulis
- Pleurothallidinae: Acianthera aphthosa
- Pleurothallidinae: Acianthera casapensis
- Pleurothallidinae: Anathallis linearifolia 'D&M'
- Pleurothallidinae: Dracula pusilla
- Pleurothallidinae: Masdevallia herradurae
- Pleurothallidinae: Masdevallia infracta
- Pleurothallidinae: Masdevallia nidifica
- Pleurothallidinae: Myoxanthus affinis
- Pleurothallidinae: Octomeria unidentified
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis gargantua
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis longipedicellata
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis nuda
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis prolaticollaris
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis unidentified
- Pleurothallidinae: Pleurothallis unidentified
- Pleurothallidinae: Restrepiella ophiocephala
- Pleurothallidinae: Specklinia brighamii
- Pleurothallidinae: Specklinia grobyi
- Pleurothallidinae: Specklinia grobyi
- Pleurothallidinae: Specklinia tribuloides
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis argentata
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis argentata
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis megachlamys
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis quadrifida
- Pleurothallidinae: Stelis restrepioides
- Pleurothallidinae: Zootrophion hirtzii
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Malaxideae
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Podochileae
- Eriinae: Ceratostylis retisquama
- Eriinae: Eria carinata
- Eriinae: Eria javanica
- Eriinae: Pinalia bractescens
- Eriinae: Pinalia copelandii
- Eriinae: Trichotosia velutina
Subfamily Epidendroideae
Tribe Vandeae
- Aerangidinae: Diaphananthe pellucida
- Aerangidinae: Microterangis hariotiana
- Aerangidinae: Mystacidium capense
- Aeridinae: Ascocentrum ampullaceum
- Aeridinae: Cleisocentron gokusingii
- Aeridinae: Neofinetia falcata
- Aeridinae: Phalaenopsis gigantea
- Aeridinae: Tuberolabium kotoense
- Aeridinae: Vanda tricolor var. suavis
- Aeridinae: Vanda unidentified
- Angraecinae: Angraecum distichum
- Angraecinae: Angraecum sesquipedale
- Angraecinae: Jumellea arachnantha
- Polystachyinae: Neobenthamia gracilis
Subfamily Orchidoideae
Tribe Cranchideae
- Cranchidinae: Cladobium graminifolium
Subfamily Orchidoideae
Tribe Cranichideae
- Goodyerinae: Ludisia discolor
Subfamily Orchidoideae
Tribe Orchideae
- Orchidinae: Habenaria medusa
Subfamily Vanilloideae
Tribe Vanilleae
W/C = Wild Collected
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= accession added within past 90 days