Fun Facts About Orchids

Regardless of whether you are an experienced orchid grower or not, the beauty of these amazing flower species are out of the ordinary. They make many a man or woman smile as they remind us of all things beautiful. It sure helps to brighten up dreary winter days having a beautiful eye-pleasing orchid displayed.

Some Fun Facts About Lovely Orchids

You often hear people say "Did you Know? Now we would like to share some fun facts about Orchids that you may or may not know about. Follow along as we share these with you:

• Orchids grow just about everywhere except for Antarctica of which the most popular ones are the semi tropical and tropical plant species

• The orchid plants come in a range of shapes and sizes, especially the flowers. You might have noticed that some of these are as large as your dinner plate whereas others would hardly cover a pinhead. As far as shape is concerned, the variation seems to be infinite. It sure is a lot of fun for photographers and artists to play around with the various intricate details or the orchid's ethereal colors

• Interestingly, Orchids can be either a solid black or the purest white. It is seldom that one would witness a brilliant sky-blue orchid as it can only be found in certain terrestrial species and vandas

• Orchids can be seen as famous due to it being regarded as the most important flower within the horticultural industry/trade. This is due to improved cultivation techniques that also involves plant tissue culture

• Two things that Orchids teach us all would be patience and perseverance. Did you know that it can take as much as 18 years to produce some of these lovely plant species and getting them to develop from seed to flower. Over 30,000 species come from nature while hundreds of thousands more are added by man through all kinds of propagation methods which also include tissue culture

• Ongoing research takes place with regards to orchids. Amazingly these plant species are also being used as healing herbs while their scents, ranging between savory, sweet, pungent and spicy, are very important to the perfume industry. Vanilla is a favorite flavor that is commonly found in America. In the past Aztecs would mix some these flavors with chocolate and drank it for strength

• This amazing flower is also the second largest family of plants that are grown today. Another interesting thing to note is that the Vanilla orchids produce a wonderful spice that is also regarded as the most expensive spice second to saffron. This may be the case as the production process proves to be very labor intensive.

• According to resources, it has been recorded that one particular orchid specie has lived until it was a 100 years old

Be as it may, there are numerous fun facts about orchids that was not even mentioned over here. One thing became clear though, and that is that to ensure the survival of this exquisite plant specie, orchid growers need to make use propagations methods such as tissue plant culture.