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Flower Orchidaceae "Orchids"

The orchids (Orchidaceae scientific name), also known as orchids, are a family of monocots that stand due to its complexity and its ecological interactions with pollinators and with fungi to mycorrhizal. Found in most of the world but are especially abundant in the tropics. Can be recognized by their flowers strongly bilateral symmetry, in which his 1-3 stamens are adnate to style at least to the base. The flowers usually have the middle part of the outer whorl tepals adaxial position, and the middle part of the inner whorl remarkably elaborate and called lip. The ovary is inferior and the fruit is a capsule that opens to the sides to release the very numerous minute seeds. The family was recognized by modern classification systems such as the APG II classification system in 2003 and APWeb (2001 onwards), who considered monophyletic made after DNA molecular analysis, and traditionally was recognized in the same district in these modern systems. The family includes some 25,000 (some sources report 30,000) species, and perhaps another 60,000 hybrids and varieties produced by horticulturalists.

The Orchidaceae family is named after a species of European modest "Orchis" word in Greek means "testicle" (name used by Theophrastus for the first time), given the similarity between their pseudobulbs and parts of animal.

The orchid is a flower that from time immemorial it has attracted the most unimaginable passions in men. Already in ancient Greece was believed to curative and aphrodisiac properties. There are Chinese writing 1,500 years old which refers to the cultivation of orchids. But his real breakthrough as a flower of great ornamental value and the beginning of his ordeal occurred in the early nineteenth century, when by chance came to Europe the first plants of Cattleya labiata (Brazilian species), very similar to Venezuela's national flower, the Cattleya mossiae. For many years professional collectors coming mainly from France and England plundered mercilessly American forests to satisfy the taste of the ladies and the greed of the collectors of the time for new and rare species, to the point that many of them are already considered extinct in the wild.