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Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes. Gros Morne National Park, Canada
There is also a small genus of orchids, called coralroots, that obtains the majority of its nutrition from a mycorrhizal association with soil fungi.
A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side. Alone
WHAT are the white fluffy bits on my moth orchid? The Sun
Rotate showy plants, such as orchids, begonias, and bromeliads, into your garden for color all year.

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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 first signs of spring - centre piece of the month february pick whatever flowers you get at the supermarket to make this little basket filled with flowers. ranunculus are my favourites and available all over the place at the moment, so i chose to put them into this flowery centrepiece. the orchid is quite fancy but you just really need one to pimp this up (and it keeps for ever!). a rose or two, some ivy and green leaves from the forest and you are all set. to get started line a basket with some foil and trim on the edges. soak some floral foam in water and place in the basket, when soaked wet (can be really, really wet - it will have to work as a vase to the flowers), eventually cut and trim the floral on the edges, so that it resembles an arch. trim flowers and green leaves and stick into pot. start doing so on the bottom of foam, working upwards until you have an even flowery centrepiece. make sure foam stays moist - adding some water from time to time. Archive 2008-02-01
Moth orchids should be repotted in spring but only into a very slightly larger, clear plastic pot. The Sun
As well as pollinating the orchids, the bees are the chief pollinators of canopy trees.
In a number of orchid species, the outer tangential walls of short cells have numerous wall ingrowths that greatly expand the surface area of the plasma membrane and, thus, resemble transfer cells.
At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids. White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
In fact today orchids like the phalaenopsis or cattleyas are very easy to grow.
The seven series of Monocotyledons represent a sequence beginning with the most complicated epigynous orders, such as Orchideae and Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
You know how it is when to stay feels like an eternity of misery, even with the promise of a multi-tiered orchid-bestrewn imported from the UK chocolate wedding cake? June 2005
Here, 12 orchid species are distributed including four mycotrophic orchids (dependent on soil fungi for nutrients).
Some choices include azalea, calla, hydrangea, miniature rose, moth orchid, Oriental lily, tulip, and ‘Wonder Bells Blue’ double campanula.
There, house plants such as schefflera are trees, and orchids and bromeliads serve as understory plantings, and it seemed to me that there were plants flowering everywhere. Azcentral.com | news
He experimented with carnivorous plants and orchids in the greenhouses, and studied natural selection on a special patch of weeds. Times, Sunday Times
But there are still the orchids, and more are in bud in the greenhouse to help us get through the bloomless times. Searching For December Bloom Day « Fairegarden
Beigel, in Virchow's Archives, mentions a cryptorchid of twenty-two who had nocturnal emissions containing spermatozoa and who indulged in sexual congress. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
(_And with a weary gesture he points to the orchids, as though they were things of which, not impossibly, "posies" might be made_.) Angels & Ministers
These two groups still form the bulk of its orchid production. Times, Sunday Times
The quarry was the coralroot orchid and the name is derived from the underground stem that is said to be coral like. Country diary: Ardersier
This condition, called cryptorchidism, is known to be a risk factor for poor semen quality and a greater risk of testicular cancer. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Hardwood trees stretched out of sight towards the distant sky; five-fingered orchids crawled up their trunks, and huge ferns spilled over their roots across the mossy path.
But dianthus, like orchids, are easily crossed among the species, and as a result we can enjoy varieties fall, winter and spring.
Holographic titles emboss their shiny covers of orchid or teal, sometimes cobalt. Assumption
A rare ground orchid Disperis neilgherrensis has blooms that are striking beyond belief.
The authors calculate that the risk of testicular cancer is approximately 5 percent in cryptorchid boys with intra-abdominal testes, abnormal external genitalia or an abnormal karyotype.
I have looked at the seeds; I never saw in the British orchids nearly so many empty testae; but this goes for nothing, as unnatural conditions would account for it. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
One of the most common pairings for a terrarium are carnivorous plants and orchids.
Orchid roots are covered with a special tissue called velamen occurring only in a very few non-orchid plant families.
As this issue of TIME closed, our editorial staff discovered it had some lovely reasons for an impromptu party: three orchid-decked researchers ablush and abeam with plans for marriage.
But if you've never grown orchids before, you may wonder: Can you grow these hothouse beauties without a greenhouse?
I laughed out loud when I saw the larger ears glued to foam and such for I had done something similar back speaking of dinosaurs! twenty years ago… I made containers for orchids and such for a gig in NY… a round ball with a water pic inserted… they became part of table arrangements for a birthday party on Park Ave. I suppose mullein leaves could be used in a similar way. More Moss Magic « Fairegarden
Purple gentians and orchids, blue scabious and harebells, orange hawkweeds, and cream and pink yarrow provide a kaleidoscope of colour to enjoy at the end of your walk.
Volunteer guides roam the greenhouses ready to answer questions about rooms filled with rain forest tropical plants, blooming orchids, aroids and gesneriads.
If you notice black sooty fungus, brown or black spots of decay on leaves or flowers, or broken discoloration on leaves or stems of your orchids, they may be harboring a fungus, bacteria or virus.
His left testicle was removed, by a process known as orchidectomy, because it had a tumour.
The cymbidium orchid became a popular subject for Chinese artists during the Song dynasty A.D. 960-1279 and was often painted in the dark ink of calligraphers. Free & easy
Dendrobium (bamboo) orchids often do better if you cut the old flowered stems down to the base. The Sun
Wild plants such as the early marsh orchids are very selective about where they grow.
The facts concerning cryptorchidism, that is to say, failure of the descent of the testes in Mammals, seem to show that the hormone of the testis is not derived from semen or spermatogenesis, for in the testes which have remained in the abdomen there is no spermatogenesis, while the interstitial cells are present, and the animals in some cases exhibit normal or even excessive sexual instinct, and all the male characteristics are well marked. Hormones and Heredity
Bill got the orchid bug from an old neighbour who encouraged him to to start breeding the plants.
He who will carefully examine the flowers of orchids for himself will not deny the existence of the above series of gradationsfrom a mass of pollen-grains merely tied together by threads, with the stigma differing but little from that of an ordinary flower, to a highly complex pollinium, admirably adapted for transportal by insects; nor will he deny that all the gradations in the several species are admirably adapted in relation to the general structure of each flower for its fertilisation by different insects. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
Hand-pollinating the orchid has increased seed production, which allows for augmentation of existing populations and introduction of seed to start new populations.
As for the Fakahatchee, it has ten species of orchids that exist nowhere else in the United States: the crooked-spur, the false water spider, the rattail, to name a few. Pam Grout: Sarah Palin, Jane Fonda and Those Suffering From Orchidelirium Were Here
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
The bold typeface is a brilliant orchid color, the model facing full-on in a way not seen in US covers very often, the sense of wild times. Vampirewire.blogspot.com: US & FOREIGN BOOK COVERS | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
Of all the orchids, the vanilla family is the only one that produces an agriculturally valuable crop.
Girl power: This female Malaysian Orchid Praying Mantis is, at 60mm, long, twice the size of it's diminutive male counterpart.
Orchids, anthuriums, chrysanthemums, gladiolus, lilies, cut flowers and dry flowers were a big draw among visitors.
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Hedgerows with grassy banks can shelter primroses, orchids and other wildflowers.
The next phase will be completed by next July, which will then include up to 10,000 plant species from banana plants to rare orchids.
Sustained by the mist from the falls, it drips with epiphytes - mosses, ferns, aroids, orchids.
All individuals had hypospadias, bilateral cryptorchidism, and evidence of mullerian duct derivatives, which was confirmed by laparoscopy.
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The blooms of freesia, narcissus, hyacinths, cattleya orchids, and miniature gardenias are often short-lived, but their sweet fragrance makes up for their early demise. How To Avoid Housework
Spring flowers - celandines, primroses, violets, wood anemones - were followed by pyramid and early purple orchids, wild thyme and rockrose.
The orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis belongs to a group of about 300 species that lure pollinators by mimicking a female insect.
Greystones Farm is a site of special scientific interest, with lowland wet meadow in which orchids flourish.
Systemic analgesia or orchidectomy may be required in individual cases.
Orchids, however, have all possible tetrad types: linear, decussate, square, tetrahedral, rhomboid and T-shaped are all reported.
Night blooming jasmine, orchids, garenia and frangipanni. Archive 2008-06-01
Some lovely choices for wedding flowers include azalea, calla, hydrangea, moth orchid, Oriental lily, rhododendron, and rose.
In the karri forests, the most important families are Fabaceae, Mimosaceae, Orchidaceae, Myrtaceae, and Proteaceae. Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
Her sea-pinks, meadow-sweet, hairbells, daisies, trefoils, orchids and clovers are all still there in a rich rug of purples, blues, pinks, yellows and creams.
Sitting along the back headrest of an eggshell-colored imperial convertible was Althea in a silk dress with red and blue checks and a white orchid at her shoulder.
If you think about it, orchids, gardenias, heliconias, Birds of Paradise, and plumerias are all lovely additions to gardens in tropical areas.
Wild flowers such as orchids and primroses are becoming rare.
The Orchid House offers the visitors a captivating display of exotic blooms of cattleya, dendrobium, arachnis, oncidium, phalaenopsis, vandal and their hybrids.
A starchy meal ground from the dried roots of various Old World orchids of the genera Orchis and Eulophia, used for food and formerly as medicine.
One of the first wild orchids can now be found flowering in oak and beech woods. Times, Sunday Times
The epiphytes hanging from the tree branches are either bromeliads or orchids.
It is home to rare orchids, a bluebell carpet which will shortly burst into colour and roe deer. Times, Sunday Times
This reward-lacking orchid is pollinated either by workers or drones of Apis cerana japonica which fix pollinaria on the scutellum.
A square pewter container was next, containing black dogwood stems, large green chrysanthemums, white lilies, the palest green flowers surrounded by senecio and rosemary, and yellow cymbidium orchids cascading over the edge.
There's no way I can get closer, not wearing summer sandals anyway, for between me and the orchid is an overgrown ditch. Country diary: South Uist
The city features six fruits - lemon, lychee, banana, longan, pomelo and pineapple - and three flowers - narcissus, camellia and orchid.
Flower growers cut chrysanthemum blooms soon after the green colour disappeared from the centre of the flowers and harvested pompons when fully developed, but they gathered orchids only when the blooms were fully open.
Bees are fooled into pollinating the bee orchid and the wispy, twisting petals of the rare lizard orchid closely resemble lizards.
Bamboos, ferns, bromeliads, epiphytes and orchids will all thrive in this microclimate.
I read about hyperadrenocorticism and feminizing testes and something called cryptorchidism, which applied to me. Middlesex
In the wood-ways a little mauve-coloured orchid is to be found. Janey Canuck in the West
Amongst orchids, where the pedicel of the flower or the ovary is normally twisted, so that the labellum occupies the anterior or inferior part of the flower, it frequently happens, in cases of peloria and other changes, that the primitive position is retained, the twist does not take place, and so with other resupinate flowers. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Finally, I am very doubtful about the remaining three unassigned colors of “nattier”; “orchid”; and “veronese.” Archive 2009-05-01
Semidoublel orchid - mauve pansy. Variegated dark green and gold, plain; sucker propagation. Miniature.
This large database has allowed physicians and researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to gain a deeper understanding of the cryptorchid testis and its impact on future fertility and cancer. Pediatric Andrology Program and Research
The sand here is stabilised by conifers but the suntrap path was illuminated by heavy bowers of broom and numerous orchids white to deepest purple.
Bromeliads, aroids, and orchids all have numerous species which live in the tops of tropical trees.
Phalaenopsis is commonly known as the moth orchid, producing arching spikes of ten or more flowers. Times, Sunday Times
European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow - white flowers.
Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike.
Or they can do what Kiwis do best: tramp along the ten-mile Moeraki Valley trail system, where wild orchids grow.
It was nothing more nor less than a box, covered with sheets of virgin cork, and standing on the floor just under one of the windows, where the light and air could get to a weird-looking, rubbery-leaved, orchid-like plant, covered with ligulated scarlet blossoms which grew within it. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
Using bright colors and sweet perfumes, many orchids falsely advertise a meal of pollen and nectar.
At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and cattleya orchids. The White House's new florist in chief is boldly creating blooms with a view
Mosses, ferns, lichens and orchids thrive in the damp atmosphere of the Crater, giving way to huge mahogany, olive and date palm trees on the drier crater walls.
It's a cattleya-type orchid, and it's the first time I've ever been able to get a catt to bloom. 12/14/2007
There will be do-it-yourself kits for gardeners who will use genetic engineering to breed new varieties of roses and orchids. Times, Sunday Times
Corsica is said to be famous for its orchids, verbenas, and cotyledinous and caryophyllaceous plants; but I only speak of what I saw, and these were out of season. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
We were greeted at the door of the restaurant by waiters who were passing out leis made from plumeria flowers and orchids.
There will be do-it-yourself kits for gardeners who will use genetic engineering to breed new varieties of roses and orchids. Times, Sunday Times
Where else can you grow bromeliads and orchids outside by simply hanging them in trees?
The flowers on the cymbidium orchid last for five to seven weeks.
On the ivory shelves you see some soft orchid linen galligaskins, some buttercup yellow doeskin galligaskins, some pale celadon silk galligaskins, some deep crimson satin galligaskins, some olive green wool galligaskins, some onyx black velvet galligaskins, some dark umber leather galligaskins and some bright cyan twill galligaskins.
Victims of this form of offence have tended to be the more charismatic species such as bluebells, orchids, snowdrops and water lilies, yet some lichens and mosses have also suffered.
The show has one of the finest displays of orchids from growers, orchid societies and botanical gardens around Europe. The Sun
While most of the better known orchids are [[tropics | tropical]] and epiphytic, some, such as the bletilla, grow in the [[soil]] in [[temperate]] areas. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Here we describe a new case of pollination by genitalic pseudocopulation in orchids, this time in the genus Lepanthes.
WHAT puts white spots on my moth orchid? The Sun
Alternatively, orchidectomy - surgical removal of both testicles, stops the production of testosterone.
These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
Love your orchid and primula lovelies~ The salvia seedlings are perfect foliage plants…Planted out they are going to be gorgeous. Bloom Day/Foliage Day Combo-February 2010 « Fairegarden
Look for ancient woodland indicators including wild garlic, yellow archangel and wood melick, and away from the woodland you may well spot marsh and pyramidal orchids.
The venue is a hotel resort set in a lush tropical garden overflowing with orchids and other native flowers.
The banks are high with wild orchid, gunnera and water lily.
The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
It was the mysterious, evil forest, a charnel house of silence, wherein naught moved save strange tiny birds -- the strangeness of them making the mystery more profound, for they flitted on noiseless wings, emitting neither song nor chirp, and they were mottled with morbid colours, having all the seeming of orchids, flying blossoms of sickness and decay. Chapter 25
Miller also offers a variety of tropical plants, including bromeliads, bougainvillea, citrus, hibiscus, and orchids.
The all-white bouquet was made up of orchids and lilies-of-the-valley from England, stephanotis from Scotland and carnations from Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, with additional orchids from Wales.
There were yellow lady's slipper orchids everywhere, and wolf-willow, which smells magical. Times, Sunday Times
You'll find it painted pink, like a rare orchid embowered by its own green leaves.
The plants that he uses include ferns, bromeliads, orchids and palm trees.
Flowering epiphytes - bromeliads, orchids and cacti - are presented most commonly.
These included overall developmental delay, impaired growth, hearing loss, and a congenital defect called cryptorchidism, in which one or both testicles fail to move into the scrotum before birth. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Spring flowers - celandines, primroses, violets, wood anemones - were followed by pyramid and early purple orchids, wild thyme and rockrose.
There are over 30,000 different orchid species and well over 100,000 hybrid strains have been artificially propagated.
To attract male wasps to pollinate them, the orchids not only look like an insect Marilyn Monroe, they exude a fragrance even more bewitching than the real sexual attractant of the females they're mimicking. Kenny Ausubel: The Sting: Social Biomimicry and The Role of Fraud in Nature
Although they look exotic, Mr Stead said orchids were one of easiest house plants to grow.
Further down the valley on the old soda ash beds, wild orchids bloom on the alkaline soil, a by-product of soda manufacture.
The new orchid species - described recently in Lankesteriana, the international journal on orchidology - is named Ornithidium donaldeedodii, after orchidologist Donald Dod, who collected the specimen in the 1980s and served, in his later years, as a research associate for the UC Herbarium. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
As in most other Mediterranean orchids, vegetative characters are similar across species and do not distinguish them.
Geophyte diversity is remarkably high; the lowland and montane fynbos ecoregions support about 1,500 species, most belonging to the petaloid monocot families, notably Iridaceae, Orchidaceae, Hyacinthaceae, and Amaryllidaceae. Montane fynbos and renosterveld
The family of orchids is the largest plant family, with a great deal of variety as well, from miniatures such as Mystacidium caffrum to the 20-foot-tall Renanthera storei.
Abundant marsh-marigold, northern marsh-orchid and meadowsweet occur in wetter ground; carpets of spring squill, bird's foot-trefoil and heath spotted-orchid cover cliff tops; the wetter heaths turn golden with bog asphodel; and grazing-sensitive kidney vetch and wild angelica have re-colonised some seasonally grazed pastures.
Rhynchostylis retusa, foxtail orchid, by Buddhini Samarasinghe — Plant is native to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India. Photography Contest: Finalists, Threatened or Endangered - The Panda's Thumb
The pollen spores are usually aggregated into two or four waxy masses ( "pollinia," sing. pollinium), which usually can only be removed by the agency of insects upon which all but a very few orchids are absolutely dependent for the pollination of the flowers. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
Autumn-colored mums, pink carnations and fucshia orchids lining the streets.
These two groups still form the bulk of its orchid production. Times, Sunday Times
The evening primrose, with outstretched filaments, hangs a golden necklace about the welcome murmuring noctuid, while the various orchids excel in the ingenuity of their salutations. My Studio Neighbors
No antecedents of orchitis, infectious disease, or orchidectomy had been recorded in the patients' histories.
Many tropical orchids are epiphytes, growing on the side of trees, and will not do well if their roots stay wet.
Another of the joys of the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu are the wild orchids that grow, although now in decreasing numbers as tourists pick them.
They inspire a twitcher-like frenzy and rare species prompt great irruptions of lovestruck orchid-hunters. Times, Sunday Times
This is a pretty standard run-of-the mill oncidium orchid. 12/09/2005
Participants learnt advanced techniques in producing and protecting roses, orchids, gerberas, anthuriums and carnations.
There are over 35 000 species of orchid distributed throughout the world.
Monorchidism occurs more often in boxers than is the norm, probably because the boxer standard once allowed cryptorchids to be exhibited, and many were used for breeding.
This is one of the orchids I grow, a Cattleya-Laelia alliance intergeneric hybrid, Blc. Miyas Glow x Blc. Helen Pastushin. KDE-Look.org Content
A survey of nine additional species, representing the four major taxonomic groups of vascular epiphytes (orchids, bromeliads, aroids, and ferns), answered the first question.
Orchids in general became expensive and much-sought after because of their beauty and rarity.
Be about to parturient cloth orchid Ni, allegedly already make choice of in Arizona city a hospital is produced.
The Spaniards, in general, dislike a mixture of vanilla with the cacao, as irritating the nervous system; the fruit, therefore, of that orchideous plant is entirely neglected in the province of Caracas, though abundant crops of it might be gathered on the moist and feverish coast between Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
To the left and right were carnations, daffodils, orchids, and every species of flower Althia could recognize and some she couldn't.
Pecterlis gigantean, with its large white flowers, a fan-shaped fringed lip and a very long spur, is the most spectacular orchid found in mossy fields.
They passed fields of blooming orchids, pink and white chrysanthemums, and dark red poppies, all swaying gently in the breeze. DESPERADOES
We find ourselves taming small shrubs of wildflowers, billy buttons, gumnuts and orchids and arranging them poking out of a foam brick.
There will be do-it-yourself kits for gardeners who will use genetic engineering to breed new varieties of roses and orchids. Times, Sunday Times
He had to have an orchidectomy and a number of radiotherapy sessions.
If you think about it, orchids, gardenias, heliconias, Birds of Paradise, and plumerias are all lovely additions to gardens in tropical areas.
Orchid flowers are renowned for their longevity and remain open for several weeks during which time their cells constantly lose water to the atmosphere and may become plasmolysed.
WHAT causes a fine web to form on the leaves of my moth orchid? The Sun
Terrestrial orchids grow in the humus - the rich, loose top layer of soil that is made up of decaying leaves and vegetable matter.
Desert Orchid and a close encounter of the short kind.
Plus, playing it cool ... the dark secrets of an orchid grower And, who said Robins could sing?
If you have orchids in small pots (I have one miniature variety of oncidium) then you might need to water once or twice a day but if you have a medium sized plant, particularly one with a psuedobulb at the base of the leaves where it can store up water, then once a week is usually sufficient. Scribbit | A Blog About Motherhood in Alaska
The church people gave out corsages to the mothers, and of course the flower pinned to the leaf was an orchid.
For women with diet - treated gestational diabetes odds ratio of having a child with cryptorchidism was 3.98.
There's the blue and white of bluebells and wood anemones, celandines and sedges, orchids, and especially good ferns.
The staff of the Orchids tea room were so delightful that I went away beaming and saying ‘yes everything was fine’, when with hindsight the bread was plastic and the cauliflower cheese runny.
Vines of the largest size, creepers, aroids, and bromeliads and more than 150 orchid species are part of the epiphytic realm that grows over the giant trees. Magdalena-Urabá moist forests
Rare plants include blue-hearts, Texas sandwort, crested coralroot, crane-fly orchid, dwarf hackberry and spotted wintergreen. Post-gazette.com - News
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
Had the orchid seed been referenced in this text as the world's smallest seed, bibliolaters would be holding this verse up in our faces as ‘proof’ that an all-knowing God inspired the bible!
Its floral emblem is the pink lady's slipper, pictured, a variety of orchid. Times, Sunday Times
Mosses, ferns, lichens and orchids thrive in the damp atmosphere of the Crater, giving way to huge mahogany, olive and date palm trees on the drier crater walls.
The fruit of this orchideous plant is entirely neglected in the province of Caracas, though abundant crops of it might be gathered on the humid coast between Porto Cabello and Ocumare, especially at The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Schultes described his encounter with the blue orchid in “Aganisia cyanea—Jewel of the Jungle,” American Orchid Society Bulletin 30: 558-62, 1961. One River
This volume of gonzo musings completes the “accidental trilogy” begun in Blood Orchid and continued in Blues for Cannibals, offering more scorched-earth prophesying by the hard-bitten Bowden, a journalistic iconoclast in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Abbey, and James Agee. Cover to Cover
It supports a tremendous variety of flowers including St John's wort, orchids, stitchworts and bugle.
Expect boulders as high as houses eroded into weird shapes, caves daubed with prehistoric paintings and spectacular displays of springtime orchids. Times, Sunday Times
But no one seems to know what has happened to the many rare orchids once housed there. Times, Sunday Times
The bulk of Davis 'collection is the orchid variety Cattleya, commonly known as the corsage orchid. News & Record Article Feed
Some liberated lawns will surprise you with a flush of lady's smock, tall meadow buttercups, ox-eye daisies and even orchids.
But the composed-looking orchids, with their astonishing colouring against bright green leaves are among the best photos on display.
The purple flowers, even when they're nominally pink and growing in the sun, such as wild thyme, restharrow, wild marjoram and pyramidal orchid, bring with them a kind of shadow. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
For something in bloom, choose a camellia, Christmas cactus, cymbidium, kalanchoe, or moth orchid.
Vanilla and orchid are the strongest scents. The Sun
Coleus, bougainvillea, snow-on-the-mountain, wandering Jew, violets, agapanthus, Johnny-jump-ups, poor-man's-orchid, spider. They trade cuttings, smuggling them over state lines, to propagate at home.
Orchid, African violet and cactus are just a few of the special mixes available.
Here, therefore, is a symmetrical and complete, regular, but dimerous orchideous flower, the first verticil of stamens not antheriferous, the second antheriferous, the carpels alternate with these; and here we have clear (and perhaps the first direct) demonstration that the orchideous type of flower has two stamineal verticils, as Brown always insisted. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Over 360 species of plant have been recorded on site including creeping spearwort (found at only four other sites in Britain) and coralroot orchid.
MY moth orchid has patches of white fur on the leaves. The Sun
The observed changes in spermatozoal expression of transcriptional and apoptotic genes may result in poor seminal parameters found in boys with a history of cryptorchidism. Urology Division Research
She held in her hand an orchid, its structure that of an odontoglossum, but of a delicate green colour heavily splashed with scarlet -- a weird and unnatural-looking bloom. Tales of Chinatown
The coralroots are the only members of the orchid family native to Nova Scotia that are without chlorophyll and depend upon the decomposing remains of other plants for sustenance.
During the summer months it is, on the northern side, covered with the flowers of a caulescent orchid (Ornithorhynchos) that has not been found anywhere else in the neighbourhood; and the natives, who are very fond of flowers, inheriting the taste from their Indian ancestors, at this time, often on Sundays ascend the peak and bring down large quantities of the blossoms. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
A long corridor, with salix twigs, orchids and asparagus ferns covering the walls, had been scattered with 5,000 rose heads. Times, Sunday Times
Spider mites, mealy worms and scale are insect pests that are attracted to orchids.

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