Blue Orchid (disambiguation)

"Blue Orchid" is a song by the White Stripes.

Blue orchid may also refer to:

Plants

• Aganisia cyanea, an orchid species from Latin America
  • Hybrids between this species and other genera in subtribe Zygopetalinae are also known for having blue or nearly blue flowers
• Bletilla striata, a species of orchid from East Asia. A few varieties have light lavender-blue flowers.
• Cattleya, a genus of orchids. The "coerulea" forms of various species have violet-blue flowers, such as:
  • Cattleya bicolor
  • Cattleya loddigesii
• Cleisocentron gokusingii, an almost entirely blue orchid from Borneo
• Cleisocentron merrillianum, an almost entirely blue orchid from Borneo
• Dendrobium ceraula, an orchid species from the Philippines also known as the "Horned Dendrobium". Closely related to Dendrobium victoriae-reginae
• Dendrobium cyanocentrum, an orchid species from New Guinea; see List of Dendrobium species
• Dendrobium leucocyanum, an orchid species from New Guinea; see List of Dendrobium species
• Dendrobium victoriae-reginae, an orchid species from the Philippines also known as "Queen Victoria's Dendrobium"
• Disa graminifolia, an orchid species from South Africa
• Disa purpurascens, an orchid species from South Africa
• Glossodia major, an orchid species from Australia
• Pabstia jugosa, an orchid species from Brazil
• Pescatoria coelestis, an orchid species from Latin America
• Phalaenopsis violacea, an orchid species from Southeast Asia. Certain strains of the coerulea form have violet-blue flowers
• Rhynchostylis coelestis, an orchid species from Indochina
• Thelymitra, a genus containing truly blue orchids, including:
  • Thelymitra crinita
  • Thelymitra cyanea
  • Thelymitra ixioides
  • Thelymitra pauciflora
• Thelymitra venosa
• Thelymitra angustifolia
• Tuberolabium woodii, an orchid species from the Philippines
• Vanda coerulea, an orchid species from South Asia
  • Hybrids of this species with others in subtribe Aeridinae also have deep purple-blue flowers
• Vanda coerulescens, an orchid species from South Asia
• Vanda tessellata, an orchid species from South Asia

Other uses

• The Commission of the EU and the ECDC organised the exercise ‘Blue Orchid’ to test crisis management functions in 2019:
• Blue Orchids, a British band
• Operation Blue Orchid, a police operation