| Scientific Name: | Phalaenopsis cvs. |
| Common Name: | moth orchid |
| Family Name: | Orchidaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand, Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 11: (above 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering pot plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Epiphytic |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Floristry, Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Basal, Succulent, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Yellow, Green-yellow, Purple, Pink, Red, Brown, Can flower any month |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems compressed; leaves alternate, broadly elliptic to obovate, most 15-23cm long x 4-9cm wide, margin entire, glossy, dark green; flowers with 5 tepals plus lip (modified lower petal), in raceme on long sturdy green peduncle, very long lasting (some species resemble months). | |