Orchids can be very long. The vanilla orchid can be 20 feet or more long, or they can be very tiny.
Long-bracted Orchid is the common name of Habenariaviridis var. bracteata.Specifically, the common name honors the hallmark length of the wild orchid's bracts. Bracts are modified leaves, which in this case are attractively long, pointed and slender. Other common names include American Frog Orchid, Bracted Orchid, Long-bracted Green Orchid and Satyr Orchid.
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1-3 ft.
It has always existed!
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Habenaria viridis var. bracteata is the scientific, Latin or binomial name of the Long-bracted Orchid.Specifically, the first word in the scientific name honors the wild orchid's genus. The second name honors the plant's species, whose hallmark is the green of its blooms and bracts or modified leaves. The scientific name also applies to the plant's other common names: American Frog Orchid, Bracted Orchid, Long-bracted Green and Satyr Orchid.
from a centimeter to over a meter long
Woodland interiors and margins is the habitat of the Long-bracted Orchid (Habenaria viridis var. bracteata).Specifically, the wild orchid favors moist, richly nutrient soils. It likes upland wooded slopes. It prefers a life by itself in the midst of wet forests.
Orchid bees main source of food and energy is nectar. They have tongues twice as long as their bodies to get deep into the flower to get all of the nectar out.
A species of orchid from Israel that looks and smells like a female bee tricks male long-horned bees into pollinating them.
East of the Mississippi River is the range of the Long Tresses Orchid (Spiranthes gracilis).Specifically, this wild orchid ranges as far northeast as Maine. It is found as far southeast as Florida. It grows as far midwest as Kansas, as far northwest as Michigan and as far southwest as Texas.