HBI, Producer of Fine Orchids in Flask
Mick Fournier Updated: May 19, 2019
335 East Linton, B-14, unit 2115
Delray Beach, Florida 33483
954-957-3389
We ship to all countries in the world except Mexico, Austria, Denmark, Canary Islands in Spain, and Australia which are still living in the primitive dark ages with respect to cooperatively allowing orchid flasks into these countries. Because of Trump's ever-changing trade wars there is sadly only a 50% chance any flasks order will make it through customs inspection in Germany.
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For Brazil and Guadeloupe there is only a 50% chance a shipment will ever make it through their customs/extortions/thievery department. Everything sent to the Russian Federation is getting through customs nicely so far (a special thanks to orchid-lover Vladimir Putin). France is good, and in January this year a Frenchie carried 5 flasks from us in Florida inside his airplane luggage through French customs with no problem (one point for us froggies). Israel and Sweden are good. Canada is good again under Trudeau. Italy is good again. For Greece we now have a 80% confidence factor that our package will arrive without complications. We can now ship again to Ukraine with no restrictions by the US Postal Office. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore remain good. There is a 50% chance that Thailand customs agents will open the sterile flasks, insert a dirty disgusting inspection stick (previously used to clean out their snotty noses) into the agar thereby contaminating the flasks. Please note that we do not accept orders over the telephone.
Review our catalog below, list your selections in an email and then simply request a quote from HBI by email on the orchid flasks of your choice, we will include shipping charges in our response:
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The Ghost Orchid, Polyrrhiza lindeni (old school name). HBI has been working on growing ghost orchids from seed for nearly 20 years ever since we first bought 3 ghost orchids flasks from Larry Evans. Larry did curating and flasking work for the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota. Selby once greenhoused the top premier specimens of this Florida species. The ghost orchid parents used by Larry originated in the Fakahatchee Strand and were first bred by him many years before ghost orchids were designated as an endangered species. Fakahatchee ghost orchids with their longer frog- legs/tendrils and ghostly all-white flower surpass the truncated short-tendril inferior class lindeni green-flower ghost orchid pretenders named Dendrophylax sallei from Cuba and Dominican Republic in any competition and will always be the more valuable type of this vanishing species to own. If you are some naive cheapskate amateur breeder looking to secure ghost orchid seeds from me under the phony pretext it is for your kid's high school botany project, please don't bother contacting me... no orchid breeder in the world is so stupid that he/she will "donate" or sell to you ghost orchid seeds so save your breath on even asking me. If you want to help your enterprising kid (wink wink) out in their high school lab then bite the bullet and buy some green protocorm.
10 plants, size ranges from three year old sprouts to 1/2" (sometimes 1") long legs. $100. We try to produce 1 or 2 of these retail flasks per month, make inquiry to get today's status.
20 plants, size ranges from 2 year old sprouts to 1/2" long legs. $190. .
30 plants, size is 1 to 2 year old sprouts with a few 1/2" long legs. $280.
40 plants, size is 1 year old sprouts with a dozen 1/2" long legs. $370.
100 plants, size is 1 year old sprouts. $860.
500 plants, size is 1 year protocorm with a couple dozen sprouts. $2,000.
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Dendrophylax fawcetti. This long-tailed leafless orchid is native to the Cayman Islands found only in a 6 acre heavily-guarded (with guns) portion within the Ironwood Forest in George Town. This species was named after William Fawcett in 1888. Click here for history. Some collectors will argue this species is more rare than the Dendrophylax lindeni. From our Private Collection.
10 plants with 1" to 1.5" long legs. $90
20 plants with 1" long legs. $165.
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C. amethystoglossa (Mystery x Orchidglade). The stud plant Orchidglade is from the famous Jones & Scully Nursery which operated in Miami 1946-1992 until Hurricane Andrew. This plant was spectacular.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $30
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C. blossfelddiana (Mick CBR/AOS x sib). We began breeding this rarely seen Cattleya in 2004, it is a definitely a favorite here in Florida.
10 plants 1" tall. $30. On hold until roots set better, check back June 2019.
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C. dowiana var aurea Excellente x self. Excellente is from Costa Rica. The flask of this selfing however came to us from the top private collection in Venezuela hand-carried by me back to Florida during Hugo Chavez's first term before the export of orchids were severely restricted by his goons/narco-thugs.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40, On Hold until bigger, check back in July 2019.
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C. dowiana (Del Valle x Cahiz-Yrygoyen). Del Valle is specimen quality variety aurea breeeder straight from Colombia. The Cahiz-Yrygoyen mericlone is also variety aurea but with a unique purple lip from the OFE family collection in Miami.
10 plants 1" tall. $40, should be suitable for shipment in July 2019.
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C. elongata. This species (from the old original JEM nursery in Florida) throws out a super long inflorescence, you can grow the plants in your backyard and bloom the flowers over in your neighbor's backyard.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $35.
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C. gaskelliana var coerulea (Mick's Flurry x (Baruta x self)). This cross will be our best attempt in 22 years at producing nice blue gaskelliana species.
10 plants 1" tall. $40
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C. gaskelliana var alba White Walker. The flowers on this monster are 7.5" across.
This fast growing super-floriferous breeder grew to be much too heavy for one person to lift. We recently divided this plant into 4 divisions. Two of the 4 divisions are now for sale at $150 per division.
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C. hardyana. On page 71 of Carl Withner's book The Cattleyas and their Relatives Volume 1 is the most most beautiful white petals/sepals semialba hardyana (which is a natural occuring hybrid between C. aurea and C. warscewiczii) that I have ever seen in all of orchid breeding. We have crossed our C. warscewiczii semialba Shahbanu with pollen from our C. dowiana var aurea Cahiz-Yrygoyen (from the OFE clan) in hopes of matching the semialba in Withner's book.
50 plants intermediate flask 1" to 1.5" tall. $70.
100 plants intermediate flask 1" tall. $100.
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C. labiata var coerulea ((D. Guile x Nice Lip) x Isawitfirst). We are hoping the dark blue lip coloration from the Isawitfirst pollen parent (picture on right) takes dominance and permeates the most of the flower on the offspring to produce some very rare concolors.
10 plants 1" tall. $30.
20 plants 1/2" to 1" tall. $50
100 plants 1/2" to 3/4" tall. $100
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C. loddigesi ((Impassionata x DeNarma) x Little Man AM/AOS). The offspring in this grex have a high probability of producing flowers that are very dark.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $35
We have a division of the (Impassionata x DeNarma) pod parent plant for sale. $250.
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10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $50
10 plants 2" to 2.5" tall. $75, one flask currently.
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10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $50.
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C. lueddemanniana var coerulea ((Kathleen x Francisco) x ((Mariauxi x Francisco) x Crystelle)). As many of you know the blue Francisco will not self so we here in the lab are always keen to cross two stud plants containing a Francisco parent to increase rare chloroplasts of blue coloration. All of the offspring from this cross are reserved by a large orchid house in Germany until February 2020 after which expiration we will offer this selection to our regular customers. The pod parent (7.5" wide flowers) is pictured on the left side and the pollen parent (6" wide flowers) is shown in the center and right side pictures.
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C. lueddemanniana var rubra ((Laluz x Infierno) x (Sarita x Yamile)). Rich deep red magenta velvety concolor parents. Laluz x Infierno on the left. Sarita x Yamile on the right.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40, will ship again in July 2019, three flasks remaining.
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C. lueddemanniana var rubra (Sarita x Yamile). These vibrant pearlescent plum/magenta colored flowers are a huge 6"-7" across with good substance blooming Dec thru Feb.
Division from our Lab's select breeder named 'WhoopsTooMuchRed' , 5-6 bulbs. $200, picture available on request.
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C. lueddemanniana var grandiflora ((Mariauxi x Maruja) x (Morella x Cecilia)). Flowers measure 7" across petal tip to petal tip with good substance and perfect form... plus some major lip going on here. Picture shown for reference and comparison only. In 2020 we will offer a sib cross in flask using our #1 breeder stud plant and our #2 best boy.
We have two divisions from our #1 breeder stud that are now for sale. $225 each.
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C. lueddemanniana var rubra (WhoopsTooMuchRed x Tom Elmore AM/AOS). The pod parent is our in-house darkest breeder var rubra (Sarita x Yamile) originally from the Armando Mantellini collection. This new selection is still in the oven and won't be ready for retail sales until spring 2020.
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10 plants 1" tall. $35.
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C. lueddemanniana ((var rubra (Sarita x Yamile) x (var coerulea (La Orquidea x Azul))). Our best rubra (named WhoopsTooMuchRed) times our best darkest coerulea lip. Dare we hope for electric magenta sepals and petals with a near black blue lip? In theory we have at least a 25% chance for that coloration outcome. This cross is 5 years in the making.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $55.
100 plants 1" tall, $270.
1,000 plants 1/2" tall, $1,900. .
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C mossiae var alba Mick da' Bruiser. In March 2019 we subdivided our specimen-quality breeder purchased from Gene Monier (JEM Orchids near the old AOS HQ) in Florida 2004.
5 to 8 bulb divisions starting at $50. We will photograph the current remaining division(s) and price them out delivered.
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C. mossiae coerulea ((SVO x Blue Lip) x (Maj x self)). This should be our best blue mossiae so far. We plan to offer this selection in 2019.
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C. nobilior var coerulea (Francisco x Gold Country).
10 plants 1" to 2" tall. $35, On Hold until roots grow out better.
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C. percivaliana var alba ((Sonia x self) x Sonia). We are reactivating Armando Mantellini's old backcross on this perfect alba.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40, only 3 flasks available.
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C. percivaliana var coerulea (Undine x self).
10 plants 1" tall. $50, check back in June 2019.
For those collectors in the top 1% of the population we have the F2 generation of this breeding line using the best blue from the F1 swarm, it is the Cerro Verde x self.
3 plants in flask 1" tall. $250, only two flasks. Could be ready to ship by common carrier in August 2019.
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C. percivaliana (Summit FCC x Teresa Antonio AM/AOS). This is a cross we made 4 years ago, the first run flasks sold out quite fast. The flower picture is one of our first bloomers from the cross of these two AOS champions. The vivid electric orange coloration in the column is stunning and was quite a hoped-for dream come true in this breeding laboratory dedicated to the continuation of such fine rare Cattleya species.
10 plants 1" tall . $50, we could have two flasks ready to ship August 2019.
If you are interested in a blooming size potted plant then let us know and we may be able to arrange one for you.
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C. schroederae (var citrina x concolor Rosalia). Our best citrina stud pod parent plant has been paired with pollen from a rarely seen gorgeous concolor Rosalia (Right side) owned by a famous breeder in Miami. This union will surely be absolutely exquisite with perfect form. This cross is in intermediate flasks now. We will be offering this selection for sale in the summer or fall of 2019.
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C. schroederae var citrina. In Florida our Cattleya schroederae bloom in January and February. Our original flask from 5 years ago came directly from Colombia and the breeder claimed the parents were 1st generation wild collected plants.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $35
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C. trianaei var coerulea (OKF2485 x Lunara). Exquisite multiflora sylphlike ethereal OKF2485 (L) softly summons your touch and beckons your eyes/nose so much closer. Lunara (R) brings majesty and spiking height to the cross.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40.
50 plants minimum 1/2" tall. $125.
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C. trianaei var coerulea (OKF 2485 x Quimbaya). Two outstanding specimen quality coerulea trianaei species. We hope to begin offering this cross in the fall of 2019.
10 plants 1" tall. $50.
100 plants 1/2" tall. $200.
1000 plants 1/2" tall. $1,500.
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C. trianaei semialba (Mick's Quest x White Chimera). Both plants have flowers with no pink or bluish tinge in the sepals/petals even though the White Chimera (pollen from famed Venezuelan breeder Armando Mantellini) on the right side seems to have a very light blue tinge, it is an artifact from insufficient lighting at dusk. Currently in intermediate flask. We will be offering this semialba in 2019.
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C. trianaei var coerulea (OKF 2485 x (Luna Musica x Blue Diamond)). This cross is our best hope at a high-quality blue trianaei. The Luna Musica is the best coerulea we have ever come across and the substance plus form of our pod parent OKF 2485 is unquestionably superior.
10 plants 1/2" to 1" tall. $50.
100 plants size sprouts to 1/2". $400.
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C. velutina (JAM x JEM). When is the last time you saw a Cattleya velutina? Or perhaps more specifically, have you ever seen one?
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $30
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C. violacea var coerulea Fabio Nahas x self. Straight from Brazil. Very unusual coerulea of this species. Glassine sepals and petals. Center of flower blue will take your breath away.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $45, doublecheck for availability.
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C. violacea semi alba (Icabaru x Hector Luis). Icabaru is an unusual semi alba with a uniform bright red column. Crossed with the #2 outstanding semialba from Colombia. This cross has occasionally produced bright contrasting white sepals and solid fire engine red petals.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $40.
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C. warscewizii var coerulea ((Angarita x self) x Saint 4). We have high hopes that the strong blue color in these two specimen plants will be carried into the progeny along with the great form seen in the Francisco Villegas Saint 4 pollen parent.
10 plants 1/2" tall. $50, too small to ship at this time.
50 plants 1/4" tall. $170, too small to ship at this time.
100 plants sprouts to 1/4". $300, too small to ship at this time.
1,000 plants sprouts to 1/4". $2,600.
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C. warscewiczii (semialba Shahbanu x coerulea (Angarita x self)). The pod parent plant is named after and in respect of the last queen of Iran, Empress Farah Pahlavi, before Ayatollah Khomeini and his 14th century thugs overthrew the Shah. I had the pleasure of personally meeting the Empress in Isfahan many years ago and this plant (left) was named in honor of her Highness. Coerulea (Angarita x self) is on the right.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $35
100 plants 1/2" tall. $90
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C. warneri var coerulea (Rio Casca x Blue City). This cross was made in Brazil using first generation jungle collected parents. We acquired a flask directly from the breeder's laboratory in Brazil and are still drawing plants from that first purchase.
10 plants 1" tall. $30.
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C. warneri var coerulea (Henrique x Code Blue). Four years ago I bought a division of the Henrique directly from Henrique Graf (see picture on the left). This might be the best C warneri coerulea in existence. Our lab has bred this plant with our best new coerulea specimen plant in the greenhouse named Code Blue (see picture on the right). This batch will be limited.
10 plants 1" tall. $40, as available.
We have a 5-bulb division from the unusually husky fast-growing Code Blue stud plant for sale. $200 each division.
For a 5-bulb division from the Henrique, make inquiry. $400 each division.
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L. purpurata var schusteriana ((Misty x Limerick) x sib). I am fairly certain that this first Misty x Limerick union of two superior species stud plants was Helen Schwartz's last cross made in her old Miami greenhouse/laboratory. We subsequently used the two best offspring from that swarm for this new cross. Helen named all her favorite orchids Misty after one of her most favorite Great Dane dogs... and she had many.
10 plants 1/2" tall. $30, On Hold until larger circa July 2019.
We will be able to offer 50, 100, 1000 plant sizes of this selection.
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Bulbophyllum medusae. The amazing "hairy" orchids, many umbels of cream colored flowers resembling stringy mopheads hanging down from the plant.
10 plants 1.5" tall. $35, OK for pickup in Delray Beach, but insufficient root mass to safely ship using common carrier.
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Catasetum pileatum var Imperialis cultivar Donna #1 x self. Half of this run bloom the more desirable mahogany coloration on the males (right side). 10% or less of all flowers blooming will be female (left picture). Included pictures are offspring from this actual batch.
10 plants 2" to 5" tall. $30.
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Trichocentrum stacyi (formerly named Oncidium stacyi aka wittii). Has been formally named stacyi (Oppenheim, 1926). Terete leaf, vigorous grower. Dr Guido Braem says this species from Bolivia is now quite rare. We grow this plant like a Paraphalaenopsis mounted and leaves pointing downward. Our top two stud plants have produced a strong new crop which is in intermediate flasks now.
10 plants in flask 2" minimum tall. $35.
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Psychopsis versteegiana. 3-5 single successively blooming flowers. From Surinam, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia at 200 - 1200 meters elevation.
10 plants 1" to 2" tall. $35
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Phal violacea var murtoniana. Borneo type sib cross, strong parents threw up large fragrant simultaneous blooming 3-5 flowers.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" leaf span. $40. Limited.
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Phal violacea ((var coerulea Blue Taiwan x coerulea Blue Krull) x murtoniana). Picture of P violacea var bellina coerulea (Blue Taiwan x Blue Krull) on left side. P violacea var murtoniana on right.
10 plants 2" leaf span. $65, we have two flasks avaialble.
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Phal violacea (Indigo x (var bellina coerulea Blue Taiwan x coerulea Blue Krull)). The indigo (picture on the right) is from the Krull-Smith collection.
10 plants 1.5" to 2.5" leaf span. $90.
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Neofinetia falcata Orchids top
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Neofinetia falcata (Hichou x Fukiden). Hichou on the left is characterized by deep purple pigmentation in the basal portion of the plant leaves. Fukiden on the right is the famous number one NF in Japan displaying beautiful yellow variegation in the leaves with perfectly formed flowers. We are hoping for a lot of purple color in the leaves and vibrant yellow variegation along the leaf edges.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. Sold Out.
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Neofinetia falcata (Tougen x Shu Ten Nou). Tougen is the largest Neofinetia falcata flower that we know of in existence times the old line standard in red/pink tailed NFs, the Shutennou as shown on the right side.
10 plants in flask "1 to 1.5" tall. Sold Out.
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Neofinetia falcata (variegated Higashidemiyako x ((Amani Pink x Syoujou Red) x Shu Ten Nou)). We are trying once again with another variegated clone to achieve red flowers on a variegated leaf plant.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $90
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Neofinetia falcata (Tougen x Fukiden). Tougen is the largest Neofinetia falcata flower that we know of in existence, the flower is bigger than a US quarter coin. The pollen parent variegated leaf Fukiden is of course the number one undisputed champion in Japan for many years running.
10 plants 1.5" talll. Out of Stock.
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Neofinetia falcata (((Amani Pink x Syoujou Red) x Shu Ten Nou) x Fukiden). Our best colored Neofinetia falcata specimen to date crossed with the best (and highest awarded) Neofinetia falcata in the world.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $100
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Neofinetia falcata (((Amani Pink x Syoujou Red) x Shu Ten Nou) x sib). This is our best colored Neofinetia falcata cross to date.
10 plants 1/2" to 1" tall. $55
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $85
We do have well-established previously-bloomed potted plants 2-7 plants per pot click here of the NF ((Amani Pink x Syoujou Red) x Shu Ten Nou) cross available upon request. $20 per plant.
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