Sweaty Feet Orchid
Posted on July 18, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News
~Oz I know how much you like your native orchids, I thought I would share a fairly new one found at Yosemite, by Botonist Alison Colwell."The new orchid species that flourishes only in the wet meadows of a beloved portion of Yosemite National Park. Botanist Alison Colwell said the species' tiny, tennis-ball yellow flowers weren't what first led her to it, but rather the smell of sweaty feet the Yosemite bog-orchid emits to attract would-be pollinators" or to use her words, -- 'Eew, what's that?'" said Colwell, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey in El Portal. "It smelled like a horse corral on a hot afternoon."
The plant, which is the only known orchid species endemic to California's Sierra Nevada range, grows in spring-fed areas between 6,000 and 9,000 feet, Colwell said. All nine sites where the orchid has been spotted are in the park.Photo and article here ~Boz (Don't think of sending me any. Pink Fairy Orchids will be fine)
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One Response to “Sweaty Feet Orchid”
can you just over and get a better photo please 🙂
i do like orchids
and not the big showy ones
but the ones that are different and unique
such as our underground orchid
and this one sounds different, i like the smelly sound of it (can smell have a sound?)