Buddhist Festival – Asaha Bucha Day
Thai Online Radio – Jazz Moment
Year of the Rabbit – Thai Zodiac
Thai Wat – Wat Phrathat Doi Kham
Sak Yant – Paed Dan – Eight Sided Yant
Thai Online Radio – Music Zaa
Wat Sanghathan Meditation Center
Sak Yant – Phra Narai Song Khrut
Baan Tong Luang – Hill Tribe Cultural Preservation Village
Thai Online Radio – Siam Music Zaa
Thai Wat – Wat Phrathat Suthon Mongkon Khiri
Thai Online Radio – UBRadio – Underground Music
Sak Yant – Paed Tidt – Eight Direction Yant
Thai Online Radio – GreenWave
Dhamma Kancana Vipassana Meditation Center – Kanchanaburi
Eating Bugs – Bees Nests – Bee Larvae
Jintara Poonlarp – Thai Singer – Luktung
Laem Chabang Country Club – Pattaya Golf
Buddhist Ceremony – Wian Tian – Candlelight Procession
Thai Orchids
Thailand is fortunate to have a wide variety of native orchids, but unfortunately some of these extremely beautiful Thai Orchids are becoming rare. In addition to the native Thai Orchids, Thailand has produced many hybrid orchids which are among the most beautiful orchids in the World.
Thai Orchid – Gastrochilus bellinus Rchb.f Kuntze
The flowers of this Thai Orchid may be small, measuring just over 2 cm wide but Gastrochilus bellinus (Rchb.f) Kuntze is an extremely beautiful Thai epiphytic orchid. Gastrochilus bellinus can be found in Northern Thailand and is also distributed throughout Southern China, Laos and Myanmar (Burma). In Thailand, this orchid, known as “Seua Dam”, grows at altitude in hilly evergreen forests.
Pomatocalpa spicata Breda – Thai Orchid
Pomatocalpa spicata Breda is an epiphytic Thai Orchid known in Thailand as Chang Dam. Distribution of Pomatocalpa spicata Breda is from India to S.E.Asia and can be found in almost all the Thailand regions both in dry and moist evergreen forests. The sepals and petals of the flowers, which are approx 0.5cm across, are yellow, usually, but not always, with reddish brown blotches and the mid lobe is heart shaped and sometimes lighter in colour.
Thai Orchid – Pelatantheria insectifera Ridl.
The Thai Orchid, Pelatantheria insectifera Ridl. is known in Thai as “euang Jakajan” and is reason sometimes referred to as the Insect Bearing Pelatanthera. Pelatantheria insectifera Ridl can be found in broadleaf evergreen lowland forests on limestone rock throughout the North, East and West of Thailand and is native to India, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.
Thai Orchid – Rhynchostylis gigantea Lindl. petotiana
Rhynchostylis gigantea Lindl. is a most attractive Thai Orchid. There are several colour varieties of Rhynchostylis gigantea and this variety, petotiana, known as Chang Peuak in Thailand, has white flowers with a pale green column. Rhynchostylis gigantea is becoming a collector’s species with new colour varieties appearing regularly. Rhynchostylis gigantea Lindl. petotiana can be found in Southern China and throughout mainland S.E. Asia but unfortunately, in Thailand can rarely be found in its natural habitat.
Thai Orchid – Dendrobium heterocarpum Lindl
Dendrobium heterocarpum Lindl is a Thai epiphytic orchid found in all regions of Thailand excepting the Central region. Dendrobium heterocarpum Lindl is distributed in the Himalayan ridges, Southern China and S.E.Asia. Dendrobium heterocarpum Lindl grows in hilly evergreen forests above 1000m.
Thai Orchid – Rhynchostylis gigantea
Rhynchostylis gigantea (Lindl.) is an epiphytic Thai orchid widely distributed in every region except the South of Thailand. Rhynchostylis gigantea is found throughout most of S.E. Asia and China. The flowering period for this Thai Orchid is December – January.
Flowering Orchid – Beallara – Miltassia
Our flowering Orchid, which incidentally was sold as an Oncidium, is either a Beallara or a Miltassia. If our flowering orchid is indeed a Beallara then it may be Peggy Ruth Carpenter – “Morning Joy”. That orchid was apparently bred from Beallara Tahoma Glacier “Green” and Miltonia “Purple Queen”. If our flowering orchid is a Miltassia, then it is a cross between a Miltonia and a Brassia, the hybrid name unknown.
