What is the Christmas orchid?
Christmas orchid is an informal name for a handful of different orchids that bloom during the winter holidays. Some Christmas orchids are also used in traditional Christmas flower arrangements. Most of these types of plants are easily grown, but require unique conditions to bloom during Christmas. Among the three most famous types of orchids that bloom during Christmas are Percivel's Cattleya, Winika and Bethlehem Orchid. These Christmas orchids have spectacular flowers with large, disheveled petals. The remarkable lower lobe Cattleya Percivel moves from dark red in the middle to light pink along the edge. Many orchid enthusiasts noted that the strong odor of these flowers can be considered inappropriate. This species can be lifted like a Christmas orchid by the soil that the soil will be completely dry before it is irrigated autumn.
Winika, Winika cunninghamii is a kind of epiphytic orchid, which comes from the tropical rainforests of New Zealand. Epyphytic rosTliny is able to survive on the cliffs and branches of trees without the need for any type of soil. Blossoms on this Christmas orchid consists of five white petals with Fuscia tips and a center lobe bright yellow and rich brown. There is also a hybrid of this Christmas orchid called Dendrobium Christmas Chime.
The star of the Bethlehem Orchid, Angraecum Sesquipedale is originally from Madagascar and known among orchid lovers for its elegant white flowers and especially long stems. Also known as comet orchid, these Christmas flowers of orchids in the warm forests of his birthplace in the summer. In Europe, North America and other colder climates, orchids are grown to flourish in the interior during the early Winter.
In addition to the Christmas orchid, the star of the Bethlehem Orchid is also the center of the famous story of Koevolution. During the 60s of the 20th century Charles Darwin carefully studied OrcHidej to determine how pollinated it. He concluded that the flower could only develop its unusual flowers if a specific moth developed with it.
According to Darwin, this moth would need a proboscis or a pendant similar to the mouth that was 14 inches (about 35 centimeters). The moth was discovered 21 years later and the video shots were taken from the fact that the moth pollinated the flower at the turn of the 21st century.