Orchid
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The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.
Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera.
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See also
- Adaptation (film), based on The Orchid Thief
- Distribution of orchid species
- Italian Group for Research on Wild Orchid
- Lantingji Xu, introduction to the Orchid Pavilion Collection from Fourth Century China
- Moyobamba, known as the "City of Orchids", which has some 3,500 species of orchid native to the area
- Orchids of the Philippines
- Orchids of Western Australia
- Nero Wolfe, a fictional detective and orchidophile
- Orchid Pavilion Gathering
- Orchidelirium, the Victorian era of flower madness in which collecting and discovering orchids reached extraordinary levels
- Shangsi Festival
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Namesakes
- "Trotsky and the Wild Orchids", an essay by philosopher Richard Rorty
- No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939), crime novel by James Hadley Chase
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