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Rattan orchids.

Code of plants: 7-56000-002-0019

name: native orchids, rattan, the
name of the scientific: orchid

Common Name: the

name of the orchid house: ORCHIDACEAE

the appearance of vision: orchids.

Features of the plant: The Orchidaceae are well known for the

many structural variations in their flowers. Some orchids have single
flowers, but most have a racemes inflorescence, sometimes with a

large number of flowers. The flowering stem can be basal, that is,
produced from the base of the tuber,

Trivia: Orchids have many associations with symbolic values. For

example, the orchid is the City Flower of Shaoxing, China. Cattleya
mossiae is the national Venezuelan flower, while Cattleya trianae is the
national flower of Colombia. Vanda 'Miss Joaquim' is the national

flower of Singapore. Guarianthe skinneri is the national flower of Costa
Rica. Orchids native to the Mediterranean are depicted on the Ara

Pacis in Rome, until now the only known instance of orchids in ancient
art, and the earliest in European art.