orchids have always held a mystery about them. from the early days of their discoveries, to their shipping back to europe and years of attempts to replicate the tropical atmosphere to trick them into producing flowers... to the modern hybrids that hold no resemblance to their wild ancestors... there is really nothing as exotic as an orchid. but the very height of elegance, vanda coerulea, and her many offspring, most notably v rothschildiana, carry a certain glamour. those tesselated violet blue flowers. an unmatched grace. even a rose is just a rose next to a blue vanda.