Black Orchid Flower

Know About Black Orchid

Black Orchid Flower is one of the orchid species are protected in Indonesia because of danger of extinction in their natural environment. Black orchid which in Latin is called Coelogyne pandurata floral identity (mascot) province of East Kalimantan. Black orchid populations (Coelogyne pandurata) in native habitat (wild) are increasingly rare and quite dramatically decreased due to shrinking forests and hunting to be sold to orchid collectors.



Black orchid (Coelogyne pandurata), as the name implies, has a characteristic of the flower which has a tongue (labellum) is black. This rare orchid in English referred to as the "Black Orchid". While in East Kalimantan, the rare Black Orchid has the local name "grit Luai".

Although identical to the Borneo black orchid but orchid species other than in the wild Borneo also grows wild in Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and Mindanao, the island of Luzon and Samar Island Philippines.

Black Orchid traits.

Orchids species is called black because of a tongue (labellum) with a little black stripes green and hairy. The number of flowers in each cluster between 1 and 14 petals or more. The line center of each flower about 10 cm. Leaf-shaped petals lanceolate, melancip, colored light green, long 5-6 cm, width 2 -3 cm. Petals oblong-shaped light green melancip lip resembling a violin, the middle there is a groove, the edges curling, stained black or dark brown.

Orchid leaves black-green oval-shaped with a length ranging between 40-50 cm and a width between 2 -10 cm. While the black orchid fruit ellipsoid with a length of about 7 cm and a width between 2-3 cm. Of the total interest is not much to be fruit.

Another characteristic that distinguishes black orchid with other types of orchids are fragrant odor. Usually the plants bloom in March to June. As black orchid orchids in general, grow a ride to the other plants (epiphytes). Usually, these rare orchids attached to the old tree that lived in coastal areas or swamps.

Black orchid (Coelogyne pandurata) grows in the shade. Generally the type of orchid is the identity of the fauna of East Kalimantan is to grow in the lowlands on old trees, near the coast or in low-lying swamp area that is hot enough and close to rivers in the wet forest.

Plants are epiphytes (stays in other plants) have multiplied with the seeds. However, black orchid can also be propagated by separating the quasi bulbs.

The Black Orchid Wild Dark.

Black orchid populations (Coelogyne pandurata) in the wild habitat is increasingly rare. Although, according to Regulation No. 7 of 1999 orchid is protected and prohibited free trade (except for captive breeding), but the hunting is done to take and sell this type of orchid to orchid collector does not go down.

In addition, beginning the shift to plantation forest function and settlements as well as the occurrence of forest fires that occur each year more and make the black population in the wild orchids are increasingly threatened extinction.

Perhaps the lovers and collectors of black orchids before buying Orchids must carefully, whether it's black orchid purchased from captive breeding or hunting of wild results. Although many orchid lovers who collected black orchid, but the extinction of this species in the wild remains a great loss for biodeversity Indonesia. Do not let the orchid lovers became the main cause of extinction of black orchids in the wild.

Scientific Classification: Kingdom: Plantae; Division: Magnoliophyta; Class: Liliopsida; Order: Asparagales; Family: Orchidaceae; Genus: Coelogyne; Species: Coelogyne pandurata; binomial name: Coelogyne pandurata

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