This learn node image is a portion of a terrestrial orchid, the Orchis galilaea, captured in a photo from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. It is part of the Botany Photo of the Day for January 24, 2008. The photographer Jackie Chambers’ description explains: The most striking feature of the Galilee orchid is the tiny human form created by the lobes of the lower petal. Each flower is only 10-12 mm, but there are usually 15-90 per stalk. . . . The Botany Photo of the Day is a project of the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden of Vancouver, Canada. Each day’s photo become a learnode of knowledge about the species of plant shown in the photo.
On the other side of the world from the orchids that bloom in Galilee, in Hawaii where orchids abound, provides this description of Orchidaceae as part of the University of Hawaii Botany Department’s Vascular Plant Family Access Page. And a click from there is a hop to the Oregon Flora Image Project.
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