Orchid hybrid registration

The RHS is the International Registration Authority for orchid hybrids. If you’ve created a new hybrid, you can register it with us. This helps to maintain stability in cultivated plant naming, something that benefits plant breeders and buyers alike. Additionally, your hybrid will be eligible for entry into shows and to receive awards.

Registering your hybrid

Registering your hybrid online is incredibly easy and takes less than 10 minutes. Alternatively, you can also register your hybrid by post.

The orchid registrar will get back to you to let you know if your registration has been successful. If you have any queries, please email the registrar: [email protected]

Please note: Registration applications are accepted on the understanding that live plants of the named hybrid really exist. Applications shown to be based on anticipated hybrids may be cancelled.

Register your hybrid online

Registration fees

The cost of registering a new orchid name is £12 per name. The fees paid by orchid registrants go towards the administration of the orchid registration scheme and are essential to registering more than 4,000 new orchids every year.

Due to the high cost of overseas postage, a charge of £10 (in addition to the registration fee) will be introduced from 1 October 2021 for hard-copy certificates posted to addresses outside the UK. This represents the cost of tracked airmail postal delivery. Digital certificates, if requested, will continue to be provided at no extra charge to the existing registration fee.

Publications

The Orchid Review Yearbook

From autumn 2023, The Orchid Review is embarking on a new chapter as a bumper annual yearbook – a must-have for all orchid enthusiasts.

The Orchid Review Yearbook

Quarterly updates detailing recent registrations

Orchid hybrid lists

Resources for orchid growers

Search the International Orchid Register

Find the parentage of a particular grex or identify grexes from seed or pollen parents

Search the International Orchid Register

Search the Kew World Monocots Checklist

This lists currently accepted names and their synonyms for plants in the wild

Search the Kew World Monocots Checklist

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