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Phalaenopsis flower
Orchidaceae, commonly called the orchid family, is a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera.
Phalaenopsis (Latin Phalaenopsis) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the cuckoo family. Includes epiphytes, which in nature settle in cracks in the bark, hollows, forks of branches and trunks of trees. Phalaenopsis grows in moist lowland forests at an altitude of 100-400 m above sea level, where they are protected from direct sunlight, sometimes growing as lithophytes on moss-covered rocks (rock outcrops). The range of the genus covers Southeast Asia, the Philippines and northeastern Australia.