Orchids
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Special thanks to Warren and Leslie Mack
for their time, plant transport, and knowledge.
Orchids are generally not self-pollinating flowers, nor wind-pollinating and they normally rely on the pollen being transferred to another plant by a pollinator such as insects, bats, or birds. The fragrance, color, arrangement, feel and nectary are all used to attract a pollinator, each according to their local environment.
Orchid comes from the name of a genus, orchus, whose pseudobulbs were thought to resemble male testicles. Due to the superstitions of the times, it was thought that the plants were an aphrodisiac that relieved sexual dysfunction. Not all orchids have pseudobulbs, and those that do vary greatly in shape based on location, climate and need for water storage.
In this picture:
(Left to right, top to bottom)
Cattleya (hybrid)
Cymbidium (hybrid)
Zygopedilum
Imagination (hybrid)
Masdevallia Hoosier Angel
(hybrid) (no link)
Colmanara Wildcat
'Bobcat' AM/AOS(hybrid)
Phragmapedeum
longifolium var.
Phaleonopsis (hybrid)
Paphiopedilum
Hamana (hybrid)
Odontoglossum
Rawdon Jester (hybrid)
Encyclia cochlea
Vanda coerulea
