orchid

They're rare and precious like a delicate orchid, and annoying as hell like a delicate orchid that gives you a rash.

Haustorium's one hell of an organ - most likely how this orchid extracts nutrients from the mycelium.

Very cool demo of turning a plant into an instrument (they played an orchid on stage).

Kind of like those baby tracking apps for new parents, but all about orchid flowers instead.

Also Orchids - West Beach is one of the centers for orchid trade in the world (bet you didn't know that).

Some other good examples are snow plant (Sarcodes sanguinea)[1] and phantom orchid (Cephalanthera austiniae)[2].

It's amazing the level of nostalgia produced by looking at some of the old designs, like Orchid Beauty[0] and Under the Sea[1].

It's not a mutualistic relationship where both the fungus and the orchid benefit.

The human over there, or the dog there, or the orchid over that shouldn't matter: they all have an innate right to life.

What did society gain by any useful metric in the orchid case?

Look at apples: sure we could have apples that are all genetically different in an orchid.

The content in those design fits into 630/700 pixel wide columns and the 11 pixel text in Orchid Beauty looks tiny on my screen!

Finland, for instance, is 芬兰 which does indeed mean fragrant orchid, but the reason that name was picked is because it's pronounced fēnlán which sounds roughly similar to "Finland" in English.

Perhaps a little off topic, but I wonder if the author knew that "Orchid" (alas, minus the subterranean) was indeed an obscure (and amazing) punk rock band?

"We needed all the help we could get since it often took hours of searching under shrubs on hands and knees to find just one underground orchid!" It's probably just my unrealistic view of what Australia is like, but that doesn't seem very enjoyable, safe, or even sane.

Orchid Righteous 3D, the original voodoo add-on card!