French orchid and red crested look similar, basically difficult to distinguish, but they do not belong to a plant, is different.
The plant type of French orchid should be bigger and look bigger. If you put two plants of the same age together, you can distinguish them. It is French orchid that is obviously thick and tall
The red plant is smaller, not so tall. Its nickname is more, also called Huazhou orchid, column top red, solitary stile flower and so on, but with the former French orchid has the essential difference.
The flower color of French orchid is lighter, the color is mainly pink, with red line on it, the color is relatively soft and implicit, the color is not very thick, but the color is bright, when blooming, it sends out light fragrance.
The color of the red on the top of the vermilion is stronger than that of the red fire. The color is bright red. But some kinds of color is pure white, and the former is different
French orchids have darker leaves with longitudinal lines in the middle.
The color of the red leaves is lighter, the middle line is not obvious.