Purple Orchid
by Dawn Gari
Title
Purple Orchid
Artist
Dawn Gari
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
All orchids are perennial herbs that lack any permanent woody structure. They can grow according to two pattern, monopodial and sympodial.
Orchids have many associations with symbolic values. For example, the orchid is the City Flower of Shaoxing, China. Cattleya mossiae is the national Venezuelan flower, while Cattleya trianae is the national flower of Colombia. Vanda 'Miss Joaquim' is the national flower of Singapore. Guarianthe skinneri is the national flower of Costa Rica. Orchids native to the Mediterranean are depicted on the Ara Pacis in Rome, until now the only known instance of orchids in ancient art, and the earliest in European ar
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March 15th, 2015
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