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And we're going to have high school kids growing Phalaenopsis orchids in the middle of the inner city.
And we have a handshake with one of the large retail grocers to sell our orchids in all 240 stores in six states.
So, the Hispanics and the black folks have formed a partnership to grow high technology orchids in the middle of the inner city.
Even some plants use mimicry: there are orchids that look and smell like female wasps to attract hapless males, who end up pollinating the plant.
And there’s a cunning purpose behind these elaborate displays: many orchids trick insects, sometimes even into having sex with them.
Like other flowers, most orchids need to attract insects to gather their pollen and carry it between plants.
Through a combination of sexy shapes and pheromones, orchids convince insects to mate with them.
Other orchids have evolved contrasting colours and ultraviolet spots– invisible to humans but irresistible to insects.
Some orchids make such convincing mates that insects even ejaculate on them, wasting valuable sperm.
But the most vital component of sexual deception is scent: orchids mimic the precise scent of a single insect species.
Sexual deception isn’t the only trick orchids have up their sleeves.
Some orchids also masquerade as places where insects lay their eggs.
Other orchids look and smell just like the fungi on which certain insects lay their eggs.
Random genetic mutations in orchids may result in a trait– like a scent or a shape– that, by chance, matches the needs of a single insect species.
But because of their dependence on sometimes just one pollinator species, orchids are also vulnerable, and many quickly go extinct.
Over time, though, more orchid species have formed than died out, and orchids are some of the most diverse flowering plants.
Interestingly, now in the Virtual Museum for Africa, we have maps for dragonflies and damselflies, butterflies and moths, reptiles, frogs, orchids, spiders, scorpions, and yes, we are even mapping mushrooms.
But some plants are manipulating animals, like in the case of orchids that promise sex and nectar and give in change nothing for the transportation of the pollen.
Bela Lugosi as creepy insane scientist who uses orchids to woo brides in order to steal life essence for aged wife.
Bela Lugosi is an evil botanist who sends brides poisoned orchids on their wedding day, steals the body in his fake ambulance/hearse and takes it home for his midget assistant to extract the glandular juices in order to keep Bela's wife eternally young.
He gets the brides after doing a pretty clever trick with some orchids that makes the brides collapse at the altar.
She gets all sorts of clues about the orchids and Lugosi.
This is the movie where Bond goes into space to prevent madman Hugo Drax from destroying human kind with the poison from orchids (in the novel Drax only wanted to destroy London with a rocket).
The electricity is returned to the city’s power grid, while the heat exhaust is piped to the facility’s greenhouses, which produce tomatoes, strawberries, and orchids.
Orchids are the kinky exhibitionists of the botanical world.
This explains why we don’t farm orchids for food.
There were mimosas, banyan trees, beefwood, teakwood, hibiscus, screw pines, palm trees, all mingling in wild profusion; and beneath the shade of their green canopies, at the feet of their gigantic trunks, there grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns.
We are very rich in orchids on the moor, though, of course, you are rather late to see the beauties of the place."
"I talked as if Dr. Watson were a resident instead of being merely a visitor," said she."It cannot much matter to him whether it is early or late for the orchids.
I am no longer hunting for shells of bygone streams, under M. Seurel's guidance, nor orchids unknown to the schoolmaster, nor even, as often before, for the deep and dried-up spring in Father Martin's field, with a grating so well hidden by weeds and grass that to rediscover it gave us each time greater trouble ...I am searching for something far more mysterious.