Orchids are a thing of beauty and joy to the onlooker and the grower who grows them to bloom. Northeast(NE) India is indeed blessed with these exquisitely beautiful flowering plants in abundance. The lush green luxuriant forests right from the basins of great Brahmaputra and Barak Rivers to the high mountain peaks clad with fog, cloud and snow all around are the real treasure houses of the flowering gems- the ORCHIDS.

In India there are about 1200 species of orchids out of which abount 825 species are estimated to occur in the Northeast India and abount 700 in Brahmaputra Vally including Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Assam. Several of them are rear, endangered, spectacular and ornamental. Because of their curious shape, brilliant colour and long lasting qualities of flowers, they are considered as "gems" in the field of floriculture.