Introduction

• Most beautiful, loveliest and wondrous among all the flowering plants in the world.
• Attractive flowers, brilliance colors, remarkable range of sizes, manifold shapes, variation in forms, attractive habits and wide distribution in the earth.
• Orchidaceae-largest flowering family >800 genera and over 35000 species
• In Nepal-‘Sunakhari’ or ‘Sungava’. Regarded as special occasion flowers.

Importance and Uses

• The size and structure of this beautiful flower, persistence of bloom up to perfection and its low perishability during transit to long distances have made orchids one of the most outstanding floricultural exportable products now-a-days.
• Highly valued flowers and appreciated by all flower lovers.
• Beautiful and unusual plants. add aesthetic beauty of both gardens and indoors
• Economic importance: even small countries like Thailand, Singapore, Sri Lanka have been exporting orchid flowers earning multi-million dollars
• Contain glycosides and alkaloids, which is used for family planning.
• Used for adornment of ladies.