About Us
Welcome to Hengduan Mountains Biotechnology. Dedicated to the conservation of Chinese orchid species, we offer seed grown cypripedium species and hybrids, paphiopedilum species and hybrids, and a wide variety of other epiphytic and terrestrial orchids from China, as well as from some of our neighboring countries. We are located in the outskirts of Chengdu, China and have operated our laboratory and nursery since 2003. We travel to the USA and Europe several times a year, and offer our customers the opportunity to place preorders for our products. The prices shown on this website include our costs for international air cargo, cites, phytosanitary, and broker costs.
In late 2024, Wenqing teamed up with Mary E. Gerritsen, Ph.D., to create a USA based company, Hengduan Biotechnology USA LLC, and with this created a new website so that our customers could have a more visual experience when shopping for our products. This website was set up for our customers in the USA, and enables a much more efficient way of presenting our catalog, tracking our sales and inventory, and fulfilling our orders. Our USA orders are shipped to Mary's home in California, and then sent on to our customers from there.
Due to very complex banking and tax regulations, we have not been able to set up web ordering outside of the USA. However, everyone is welcome to pursue our catalog, and customers from Canada, Japan and Europe are encouraged to contact Wenqing for plant order lists which can be used to order plants "the old fashioned way". (just click on contact information on the footer of this page).
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Ron Parsons (South San Francisco, CA) who graciously provided us with many of the photographs used to illustrate the orchids (and some of the ornamental plants as well).
We also conduct several botanical tours each year to the mountains of Sichuan, Yunnan, and occasionally Guangxi and Fujian. The spring tours (April, May and June) offer the opportunity to see terrestrial and epiphytic orchids, alpine flowers, rhododendrons, peonies and the ethnic minority cultures of Western China, while our autumn tours feature late blooming alpine flowers such as gentians (Aba Grasslands, Tibetan Plateau), and blooming paphiopedilum (tropical Yunnan tours). All of our tours include cultural highlights, fantastic local cuisine, and amazing scenery. Wenqing can also personalize your tour, adding pre- and or post- excursions to other parts of China. More information on our tour pages.
We encourage you to watch this wonderful video prepared by one of our customers, Marc (from Belgium) and his You Tube Channel called Toekie World. It also features footage by Tom Velardi (Botany Boy) who traveled with us a number of years ago. Wonderful photos of our lab, our nursery in the mountains, seedlings, and at the end, unboxing some new orchids.