Top 10 most rare flowers and what makes them special
9. Ghost orchid – spidery and wispy appearance
A spidery and wispy flower.
Credit: Flickr / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region
Ghost orchids are rare flowering plants that rely on very humid and marshy wetland habitats. This is why they are only known to live in South Florida and Cuba and why it’s so hard to cultivate outside their natural habitat.
This plant is white, spidery and wispy in appearance; this is where it gets its ghostly name from. The epiphytic plant’s wispy roots get nutrition from the plants it grows on.
A spidery and wispy flower.
Credit: Flickr / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region
Ghost orchids are rare flowering plants that rely on very humid and marshy wetland habitats. This is why they are only known to live in South Florida and Cuba and why it’s so hard to cultivate outside their natural habitat.
This plant is white, spidery and wispy in appearance; this is where it gets its ghostly name from. The epiphytic plant’s wispy roots get nutrition from the plants it grows on.
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