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What Really Happened. Henry, I’m tired of trekking through these swamps and jungles, classifying plants. I say, Nigel, look at this strange flower. An Orchid… I miss my wife. Nigel what about this one? A damn Orchid… I want to go home. Look at this strange flower, Nigel. It's a fucking Orchid… Pack up, we’re leaving. link
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I think they're aliens, practicing their Earth aesthetics before they choose their final form.
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04-11-2017, 08:06 AM | #3 |
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quoting: "distributed in about 763 genera"
One of those genera, seriously, is Dracula. 118 species' worth, in fact, and you've got a D. simia in the lineup. That'd be the monkey orchid. The genus is, in fact, named for the literary character despite being exclusively New World (North, Central, & South America) plant. Many are dark red to black and have assorted fang-like projections on the blooms. That's most of my orchid knowledge condensed right there. Guess I like my life sciences a little friskier than the floral side. |
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The NYBG has an annual orchid show, I've been several times and sat through a few fascinating talks about orchids. One of the things the docent said about orchids is that they are spread out world wide despite requiring exactingly specific conditions in which to germinate. As such, each orchid produces about a hijillion seeds (think about vanilla bean pods and all those tiny flecks. Those are seeds)
The docent said something like, if 1% of orchid seeds germinated the earth would be buried in orchids 100 feet deep. Something crazy like that. My depth may be off, but whatever it was, I remember it was way above our heads.
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04-11-2017, 09:11 AM | #5 |
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You're probably not off. With 4 times the number of mammal species, and a shitload of each species, making gadzillion seeds.
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Those are neat. Gives pareidolia a good name.
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Do you mean The Orchid House Surgery?
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Dead Ringers is a great film. If you go for Horror as metaphor - Cronenberg's specialty.
I just remembered an orchid that resembles a certain type of bee hovering over a stalk of grass. The male bee sees the orchid and thinks it is a receptive female bee. The male then fucks the orchid and gets pollen all over his junk, he then goes on an orchid-fucking rampage, pollinating as he does. That might be the only example I would recognize as evidence of there being a god who created everything. Or at least those bees and orchids.
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