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any orchid of the genus Psychopsis: spectacular large tiger-striped orchids

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any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers

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Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip

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orchid of Florida and the Bahamas having showy brightly colored flowers

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Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip

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Paula Rudall (of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew), originally viewed these butterfly-orchids as a simple, tractable system ideal for studying the origin of species and so they initiated a focused exploration of all nine Azorean islands.

A combination of field and laboratory research soon showed that butterfly-orchids first colonized the Azores from the Mediterranean rather than from North America, rapidly undergoing miniaturization of their ancestrally large flowers.

Rare butterfly orchid, lost for 175 years, rediscovered in the Azores

THE highest ever number of greater butterfly-orchids have been counted at a plant reserve near Caernarfon.

Great butter-|fly Orchid, pic by Dr Trevor Dines "Greater butterfly-orchids are stunning, with a clovelike scent to attract pollinating moths, but they have disappeared from many sites across Wales.

Orchids set new record on reserve

y Cae Blaen-dyffn rynf is home to whorled caraway and thousands of lesser butterfly-orchids.

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