Paul: Wow, thats small, 2 mm across the whole flower. Its even smaller than the early summer coral root, which has flowers about 4-5 mm across, at least its that small on poor soils in the northwoods.
Lee Paul Jost wrote: > For those interested in orchids, my brother just discovered the > smallest orchid in the world and it's getting picked up by online news > services: > http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/11/new_species_of_orchid_is_world.php > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6684293/Smallest-species-of-orchid-discovered-hidden-in-larger-plant.html > > In the reference section of the first article, they provide a link to > text from an article on him that appeared in the 1990 Earth Day > edition of Sports Illustrated when he was climbing trees in Costa > Rica's rain forests. To see the pictures, too, go to the following > link, click on view thumbnails, and scroll to page 94 with the full > page photo of a monkey on an all green background: > http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19900409&mode=reader_vault > > <http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19900409&mode=reader_vault> > > Paul J > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
