'Like finding life on Mars': why the underground orchid is Australia's strangest, most mysterious flower
If you ask someone to imagine an orchid, chances are pots of moth orchids lined up for sale in a hardware store will spring to mind, with their thick shiny leaves and vibrant petals. Orchids like this may be what comes to mind when you think of them, but there are actually more 30,000 different orchid species. Shutterstock But Australia’s orchids are greater in number and stranger in form than many people realise. Rock orchids, fairy orchids, butterfly orchids, leek orchids and even onion orchids all look more or less the same. But would you recognise a clump of...
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