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Indigenous to Nicaragua, Colombia, and Venezuela, Stanhopea wardii gives off a strong medicinal fragrance that attracts male bees. They collect the flowers' perfume and store it for their ...
The stanhopea usually flowers every other year during the summer A rare orchid has flowered unexpectedly amid unseasonably warm November temperatures, giving botanic garden visitors a chocolate ...
Roberto sent me a photograph of these same bees on a Stanhopea orchid in the garden of his house in Sierra Gorda and the pieces began to fall into place. The brushes on an orchid bee’s feet ...
The Mathers Foundation is home to three National Plant Collections of orchids (Oncidium; Pleione; Stanhopea & Acineta spp. & hybrids), including two that were rescued when their original ...
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