> From: Jay Pfahl >My guess is that the majority of orchids would be found > in the SE swamps between Bahgdad and Basra.
AFAIK, the southern swamps in Iraq were largely drained by Saddam Hussein to punish the Marsh Arabs. I would have guessed that the majority of orchids would be in the mountains. As a child, I lived in Ahwaz, in southwestern Iran not far from the Iraqi border. What I recall of the lowlands don't seem very favorable for orchids, but the mountains just to the north were full of wildflowers in the Spring. Nick -- Nicholas Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
