A COLLECTION OF LEAVES AND BLOOMS MACRO SHOTS
Jewel orchids are mostly grown for their foliage rather than for their blooms, due to their very sparkly, colorful and velvety leaves. Through this series of pictures, I have used macrophotography and focus stacking techniques to put emphasis on the structures that cannot be seen with the naked eye and which confer these unique textures to the foliage. 

The often overlooked blooms are also photographed using the same technique, to reveal their discrete beauty and complex structures.

These plants are often endangered due to poaching and climate change so please make sure you buy them from ethical reliable sources only, which do not sell wild-collected plants. All of the orchids displayed here come from Roehampton Orchids in Canada: they hybridize, clone and grow these beautiful plants in collaboration with a laboratory to reduce the impact of poaching on these fragile orchids.

Detail of the leaf structure of Ludochilus Poly, with some random variegation

Macodes petola var. Penang 'Roe'

Anoectochilus siamensis 'Red Vein'

Anoectochilus siamensis 'Emerald City'

Anoectochilus siamensis x Macodes limii 'Roe's Rose Gold'

Cystorchis variegata

Macodes sanderiana

Dossinia marmorata

Dossinodes (Dossinia marmorata x Macodes sanderiana)

Ludisia discolor

Dossinia marmorata

Dossinodes (Dossinia marmorata x Macodes sanderiana)

Ludisia discolor

Anoectochilus sp. Vietnam x Anoectochilus siamensis Red Vein

Detail of the leaf structure of Dossinodes (Dossinia marmorata x Macodes sp.)

Healthy Dossinodes leaf

Wilting Dossinodes leaf

Anoectochilus koshunensis x Anoectochilus siamensis

Detail of the leaf structure of Anoectochilus roxburghii 'White Gold'

Detail of the leaf structure of Anoectochilus formosanus var. silver veins

Ludisia discolor
Ludisia discolor
Ludisia discolor
Ludisia discolor
Ludisia discolor 'Dragon Fire'
Ludisia discolor 'Dragon Fire'
Ludisia discolor var. alba
Ludisia discolor var. alba
Ludisia discolor 'Marble'
Ludisia discolor 'Marble'
Ludisia discolor 'Marble'
Ludisia discolor 'Marble'

Ludisia discolor var. Sandstone

Detail of the leaf structure of Ludochilus Poly

Anoectochilus roxburghii 'DD'

Detail of the leaf structure of Macodes sanderiana 'Frost'

Detail of the leaf structure of Anoectochilus koshunensis x siamensis

Detail of the leaf structure of Ludisia discolor 'Marble'

Detail of the leaf structure of Macodes petola var Penang 'Roe' (no focus stacking, to emphasize the sparkliness)

Detail of the leaf structure of Anoectochilus roxburghii 'DD'

Macodes petola var. Penang 'Roe'

Anoectochilus roxburghii 'White Gold'

Detail of the leaf structure of Macodes lowii (also known as Anoectochilus lowii)

Detail of the leaf structure of Anoectochilus siamensis x Macodes limii 'Roe's Rose Gold'

Old Macodes sanderiana leaf (healthy young leaves are green)

Macodes petola var. Penang 'Roe'

Ludisia discolor 'Dragon Fire'

Limiensis 'Roe's Rose Gold' (Anoectochilus siamensis x Macodes limii)

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