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Plants that are sold as they were created by nature, not hybridized by man, are referred to as species orchids. They have two names (and possibly three):

 Genus name: It comes first and is capitalized.

 Species name: It comes second and is lowercase.Both names are in Latin or Greek, so they’re italicized (which is just the way foreign languages are usually treated).

 Botanical variety: You may see a third part to the name, the botanical variety, after the species name. This is a name given to an orchid that varies — it could be a larger flower or one with slightly different coloration — from the standard species. It’s preceded by the letters “var.” and will be in lowercase and in Latin.

The genus name is much like your last name and the species name is like your first name. In other words, orchid naming is backward to the way you say your own name. If my name were written as an orchid’s is, I would be Frowine steven.

Here’s an example of the name of a species orchid: Cattleya walkeriana var. nobilior. Table 1-2 explains the orchid’s name.