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Title
White And Yellow Orchid
Artist
Walter Herrit
Medium
Photograph - Photograph-digital Art
Description
Unusual And Spectacular Blooms
The orchids make up a huge family of plants found throughout the world, but most species grow in tropical rainforests as epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants rather than in the ground.
The generic name means "Phalaen[a]-like" and is probably a reference to the genus Phalaena, the name given by Carl Linnaeus to a group of large moths; the flowers of some species supposedly resemble moths in flight. For this reason, the species are sometimes called Moth orchids.
They are native throughout southeast Asia from the Himalayan mountains to the islands of Polillo, Palawan and Zamboanga del Norte in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines and northern Australia. Orchid Island of Taiwan is named after this genus. Little recent information about their habitat and their ecology in nature is available since little field research has been done in the last decades.
Most are epiphytic shade plants; a few are lithophytes. In the wild, some species grow below the canopies of moist and humid lowland forests, protected against direct sunlight; others grow in seasonally dry or cool environments. The species have adapted individually to these three habitats.
Photo taken at The Cockrell Butterfly Center in Houston Museum of Natural Science
Nikon D810
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January 18th, 2015
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