title: Blue Orchid (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  
  * Blue Orchids, a British band
  * Operation Blue Orchid, a police operation
  