7.18.2009
♥ Orchids
These fascinating flowers exotic forms, arrived in Europe in the early eighteenth century in the British Navy vessels. Few of them survive these tough travel from their place of origin, which became highly prized curiosities, with her beauty that made the charm of the world. The botanical family Orchidaceae (Orchid) has the highest number of species comprising the vegetable kingdom. It is estimated that there may be up to 30,000 species of this flower around the world from about 750 different genera, plus thousands of hybrids. The ancient Greeks considered the orchids as an icon representing the beauty and love. It is precisely their particular beauty that has made them so prized as cut flowers, but have also considered its healing powers. The most bizarre species of orchids around the world are in Australia, where its beauty and rarity makes them subject to trade causing their threat of extinction.
Orchidologists experts say that these flowers represent the highest level in the evolution of the plant kingdom. There is a vast variety of shapes, sizes, colors and perfumes as well as weather conditions and where they can develop. Conditions generally have excellent resistance, they adapt and survive even in the toughest environmental conditions.
Orchids are monocotyledons plants, herbaceous perennials and are classified as epiphytes, semiterrestres and terrestrial tropical orchids and European orchids. Its flower is hermaphrodite (both sexes in the same flower), are trimers (three sepals and three petals) and are zigomorfas (a single plane of symmetry). They have a center column or ginostemo holding the anthers (male reproductive organ) and the pistil (female reproductive organ). Among the epiphytic orchids, a species that is distinct because most of them are scented and are called Catley. The Catley, Lily May / Lirio de San Juan, is the emblematic flower of Colombia is characterized by the presence of several nodes pseudobulbos cylindrical with thick leaves. It is a beautiful variety with clusters of small and large solitary flowers.
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