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Cooktownia robertsii, commonly known as the mystery orchid, [2] is the only species of plant in the orchid genus Cooktownia and is endemic to far north Queensland.It is a rare ground orchid, named in honour of the first scientist to discover it, Lewis Roberts and has two ground-hugging leaves and up to nine small green flowers.
Dendrobium bigibbum, commonly known as the Cooktown orchid or mauve butterfly orchid, [3] is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It has cylindrical pseudobulbs , each with between three and five green or purplish leaves and arching flowering stems with up to twenty, usually lilac-purple flowers.
Dendrobium is a genus of mostly epiphytic and lithophytic orchids in the family Orchidaceae. It is a very large genus, containing more than 1,800 species that are found in diverse habitats throughout much of south, east and southeast Asia, including China, Japan, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea, Vietnam and many of the islands of the Pacific.
The National Orchid Garden is located in the Central Core of the gardens. Located on the highest hill in the Singapore Botanic Gardens, three hectares of landscaped slopes provide a setting for over 1,000 species and 2,000 hybrids, with about 600 species and hybrids on display.
Copthorne Orchid Hotel was a hotel at the corner of Dunearn Road and Dunkirk Avenue in Singapore. Opened as the Orchid Inn in 1970, it was renamed the Novotel Orchid Inn in 1972. In 1998, it was renamed the Copthorne Orchid Hotel when the hotel's owners, City Developments Limited , acquired the Copthorne chain of hotels.
[1] [4] The same colours have been adopted for the team in the NRC competition and, while the Heelers' cattle dog logo is not used, an emblem based on the traditional Cooktown Orchid logo of the Queensland Country Rugby Union has been adopted. The Queensland Country uniform is blue and white, with a crest of the orchid logo inside Queensland ...
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