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title: "My new jewel orchid. Does anyone know what type it is?"
description: "My new jewel orchid. Does anyone know what type it is?"
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community: "The Orchid Oasis"
author: "C versicolor"
published: "2025-08-04T00:10:59.151039Z"
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# My new jewel orchid. Does anyone know what type it is?

_Posted by C versicolor on 2025-08-04_

My new jewel orchid. Does anyone know what type it is?

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## 1 comment

### Waspinator commented on 2025-08-04

It's an anoectochilus species, but there's so much pattern variability in jewel orchids that it might be difficult to narrow down. If you look through the species in that genus, you can start ruling out obvious ones, and when it blooms you can compare flowers to get a closer ID. In any case, it's a beautiful one

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