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  2. Why Are Your Orchid Flowers Falling Off Too Soon? 3 ... - AOL

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    Why Orchid Blooms Fall Off Too Soon. Orchid blooms drop off eventually from natural causes, of course, but if the flowers are falling off prematurely, there may be a problem. 1. Sudden Temperature ...

  3. Disa uniflora - Wikipedia

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    Disa uniflora along a stream in its natural habitat on the slopes of the Cape Fold Belt mountains.. Its range is restricted to the Sandstone Mountains of the South Western Cape, South Africa, west of Hermanus to Table Mountain [4] and northwards into the Cederberg Mountains. [3]

  4. Orchid - Wikipedia

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    The world's richest diversity of orchid genera and species is found in the tropics. Orchidaceae is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, along with the Asteraceae. It contains about 28,000 currently accepted species distributed across 763 genera. [3] [4] The Orchidaceae family encompasses about 6–11% of all species of seed ...

  5. Deciduous - Wikipedia

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    In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/ d ɪ ˈ s ɪ dʒ u. ə s /) [1] [2] means "falling off at maturity" [3] and "tending to fall off", [4] in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

  6. Orchid hunting - Wikipedia

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    The demand grew, the plants became more and more expensive, and the profession of orchid hunter was created. Orchid hunters faced tropical diseases, wild animals and venomous snakes, floods, indigenous peoples, and often fierce competition with each other. [1] [3] In 1901, eight orchid hunters went to look for rare orchids in the Philippines ...

  7. Vanilla polylepis - Wikipedia

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    Flowers are produced either on the main stem or grouped on secondary stems called inflorescences. [7] Although each inflorescence may have up to 20 flowers, only a few of these will be open at any one time and wild plants are rarely found flowering. [2] As with other orchids, V. polylepis has highly modified flowers. Petals and sepals are ...

  8. Vanilla (genus) - Wikipedia

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    The flowers' sepals and petals are similar. The lip is tubular-shaped and surrounds the long, bristly column, opening up, as the bell of a trumpet, at its apex. The anther is at the top of the column and hangs over the stigma, separated by the rostellum. Most Vanilla flowers have a sweet scent. Blooming occurs only when the flowers are fully grown.

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