After Tian Feng and Li Wenya admired the large-flowered Huilan, they came to another orchid. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

When they didn't see this orchid, they saw that some tourists showed frightened expressions when they saw this flower.

The two of them also felt strange that there was nothing to be afraid of. Aren't all flowers beautiful and attractive! Just like the big flower Whelan just now, how beautiful and charming.

So they walked over curiously, but when the two of them looked at the flower, they also felt a little scary!

Because the orchids they saw were very strange, and each flower looked like a little white person. If it is not during the day, seeing this flower at night gives the impression that many white ghosts are attached to this orchid.

This is actually the legendary ghost orchid, also known as the ghost orchid.

The ghost orchid is an orchid that has no leaves and does not grow on the ground. It rests on a flat, green-ribbon root, clinging to the trunk of another tree, and bears white and oddly shaped flowers. When the wind blows gently, the petals sway with the wind, much like a ghost floating in mid-air – hence the name "ghost orchid".

The ghost orchid is an epiphyte that, although it is also wound around other plants, is different from parasitic plants. It does not absorb nutrients from the host plant, but uses its roots for photosynthesis and water absorption. Later, ghost orchids were found in the swamps of the southwestern Florida Peninsula in the United States. Some biologists believe that Florida's ghost orchids were brought in by wind or birds from Cuban sauce flowers.

Ghost orchids are very rare, and there are only more than 2,000 of them in the United States, all of which grow in the swamps of southern Florida. Every year from June to August is her flowering period, usually only 5%~10% of the ghost orchid can bloom, and a ghost orchid can only bloom one or two flowers at a time. But in June 2007, an Italian photographer waited four hours and landed a stunning set of photos -- because the ghost orchid actually bloomed nine flowers.

It is rumored that the ghost orchid can refine drugs. In the American movie "Adapted Screenplay", a story about drugs and ghost orchids is told: the hero and heroine go to the swamp full of crocodiles to find ghost orchids, and smoke the drugs extracted from ghost orchids, and finally the male protagonist dies tragically in the mouth of the crocodile. Although no scientist has come forward to confirm whether the ghost orchid can be used to refine drugs, it is certain that the plant itself does have a drug-like temperament.

"There are such strange orchids in the world, it's really an eye-opener!" Someone started talking.

"Isn't this artificially cultivated? It is impossible for such a strange flower to grow in nature! "Some visitors feel that this kind of flower cannot be grown in nature, and it is cultivated by artificial methods.

"Hey! Don't say that, this flower was found in a swamp in the United States, it is a real flower in nature, an alternative among orchids. ”

Some people seem to know a lot about orchids, so they express their opinions.

"No, this orchid is so peculiar that it was found in nature, it's amazing." Someone chimed in.

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Everyone looked at the ghost orchid in front of them, and they were very surprised.

"Tian Feng, do you think this orchid grows naturally!"

Li Wenya looked at the ghost orchid in front of her, and even she suspected that this was unlikely to be the work of nature, but should be a synthetic work.

Although Tian Feng is a college student who graduated from the Department of Biology, he also knows a lot about various plants and animals. But he hadn't heard of this orchid either. There is also some disbelief that this strange orchid is found in nature.

But he has an immortal spring space, in which he has cultivated the fairy flower that does not exist in the real world.

With this magical experience, Tian Feng felt that nothing in this world was impossible. Nature is omnipotent, and it is natural that it has evolved such a ghost-like flower.

Thinking of this, Tian Feng glanced at Li Wenya and said with a smile: "I believe this is true, the so-called exotic flowers and plants are all cultivated by nature, and the exotic flowers and plants cultivated by us humans ourselves are really rare." ”

Yes! There are thousands of species of flowers in nature. In the course of eons of evolution, it is natural that some strange varieties may appear. And how many exotic flowers and plants have humans discovered, and how many exotic flowers and plants have been cultivated? Compared with the exotic flowers and plants in the great garden of nature, the flowers cultivated by humans are really insignificant.

"I really didn't expect that there would be such a magical flower in nature, and I opened my eyes today." Li Wenya looked at the ghost orchid in front of her, and felt that she had made a worthwhile trip this time.

"Isn't there a wonder in the world! Only when people go to nature can they feel the magic of nature! Just sitting at home, how can we feel the greatness and wonder of all things that our Mother Nature has nurtured. ”

Tian Feng looked at the ghost orchid in front of him, and couldn't help but let out some sighs.

"This flower is so scary! Mom, we don't look at this flower anymore. After seeing the ghost orchid, a child was a little scared, and pulled the young mother next to him to look at the orchid next to him.

"Haha! Ha ha! ---" The little girl's innocent words also attracted laughter from the tourists next to her.

It was a little girl of seven or eight years old, obviously not interested in some of the ghost orchids that scared her, and took the young mother's hand to look at the white orchid with some black spots next to her.

Tian Feng and Li Wenya were naturally not as scared as the little girl, the two of them were still carefully looking at this short ghost orchid!

Don't look at the fact that people are not tall, but the market price is scary. This price makes people look at it, and I am afraid that I can only stay away from this kind of flower.

"Ghost orchid, it is difficult to cultivate artificially, it is very rare, and the market reference price is 500,000."

"Wow, this flower costs 500,000."

Before Tian Feng and Li Wenya could be surprised, a young girl with a ponytail who had just seen this flower next to her screamed.

It's just that her scream is quite loud, and after she screams, the people around her are glaring at her! She felt a little embarrassed, just looked at it twice, and then left again.

"Tian Feng, can you cultivate such a ghost orchid! If you can breed one, and you can sell it for 500,000 yuan, plus the previous pansy, you can become a young millionaire. ”

Li Wenya looked at the rare ghost orchid in front of her, and thought of the seven-colored pansy she had seen in Tian Feng's flower shop before. That pansy, they took it to the flower market in Chongshan City, and soon sold it for a sky-high price of 500,000 yuan.