Somebody once told me that my Phalaenopsis on my table was actually upside down - What is up with this?

Many orchids more or less hang in a pedent manner from trees which they adhere to in the Phillipines surrounding islands and all up through that area in the world.

In cultivation we grow them, you might say, wrong side up.

Some Orchid flowers do a very remarkable thing-in that many of them-it’s called resupination, the process of resupination- that means that the bud that is going to be a flower takes a 180 degree turn on its axis and actually I suppose you could say blooms upside down.

There are very few orchids that are nonresupinate, but most of them are resupinate, that is they do most indeed bloom upside down with there flowers.

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