The traditional perception of the shape of orchids was always pleasing due to the symmetry of the flowers to the steams and leaves. This has led for the orchid to be a symbol of perfection and beauty for hundreds of years. Also stylish nature and wide range of selection of orchid makes it unique. They are often well thought-out to be a grouping of beauty and variety, the appeal comes in all colors except the color black. In addition, to this, it is known that there is no other plant species which have as many different flowers as orchid have. It grows on another plant upon which it depends for the mechanical support but not for the nutrients, this organism needs the skeleton which would help to frame it and hold it, this support usually is a key to grow up. Orchids belong to epipyhite* plant group and also is called air plant.

Epipyhite*- A plant that grows on another plant and depends on it for support but not food. Epipyhite get moisture and nutrients from air or from small pools of water that collect on the host plant.

The whole idea of orchids has an amazing history, how they develop very strategically. This organism doesn't give anything back to its environment, but it just takes and shows a beauty which is almost obsessive to the human eye. It's a varied selfish artificial organism which gives the idea of thinking about the orchid in a different diverse way. People are obsessed with by orchids and that is a huge architecturally, moreover all people have to be obsessed what they are going to do...

".....The Orchidaceae are a family perennial plants with one fertile stamen and three petalled flowers that, depending on the species, can be anything from pale specks to voluptuous masses. Generally speaking, orchids seem to drive people crazy. The people who love orchids love them madly, but the passion for orchids is not necessarily a passion for beauty. Something about the form of an orchid makes it seem almost more like a creature than a flower. Many orchids are-strange looking, and others have bizarre shapes and jarring color combinations, and all orchids are rather ugly when they aren't in flower.....Orchids have adapted to almost every environment on earth. They can be mutated, crossbred, and cloned. They can take the form of complex architectural structures or of garish, glamorous, luscious flowers. Not surprisingly, orchids have all sorts of sexual associations; few other flowers are as plainly erotic in appearance or effect. Even other creatures find orchids alluring.

Orchid collecting began in Victorian England as a hobby for the very rich people with enough land for greenhouses and enough money to sponsor expeditions to where the rarest species could be found. The hobby grew so consuming that it was known in Victorian times as orchidelirium, because a sort of mania seized collectors....

..."The bug hits you. You can join A.A. to quit drinking, but once you get into orchids you can't do anything to kick." Collecting can be a sort of love sickness. If you begin collecting living things, you are pursuing something imperfectible, and even if you manage to find them and to possess them, there is no guarantee they won't die or change. The botanical complexity of orchids and their mutability makes them perhaps the most compelling and maddening of all collectible living things.....New orchids are being created in laboratories or discovered every day, and others exist only tiny numbers in remote places. To desire orchids is to have a desire that can never be fully requited. A collector who wants one of every orchid species will die before even coming close....

The really special orchid is the ghost.The shape, the delicacy, and the quivery sensitivity of these slender tails makes the flower look like feathers or the legs of ballerina or two little flags. Because it is leafless and grows on trees, and because the root system blends into the tree or rock it wraps around, the bloom of the ghost can appear invisibly suspended, as if it were a creature in flight.

Carlyle Luer, the author of "The Native Orchids in Florida," the definitive guide to the subject, once wrote of the ghost orchid, "Should one be lucky enough to see a flower, all else will seem eclipsed."....."

Orchid Fever by Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, January 23, 1995

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