Ecuagenera - Orchideas del Ecuador - Ecuador's Orchid Growing Business

Ecuador is known for its roses and orchids.  They export a great many flowers around the world.  We visited one orchid growing facility in Gualecero, outside of Cuenca.

At this facility, they have 1559 types of orchds growing, starting from seeds.  The process is very long, with about 50 orchids started from seed in each bottle, as shown below.  These remain in the bottles for about 2 years before being transferred to small growing cubes of about 1" square, just like the smal plastic 6-packs that we purchase our flowers and vegetable plants in, in the spring at home.

We then took a tour of the rest of the facility and below are some of the photos we took of various orchids.

This orchid is called the "ballerina".  The large yellow petal resembling a tutu.

I don't remember the name of this orchid.  But, it is beautiful.

This orchid smells just like chocolate.

This orchid is named "the dancers".

Just another to share how different and beautiful they all are.