These ‘Monkey Face Orchid Flowers’ Are Fascinating (And Very Appropriately Named!)

First of all, I had no idea that there was an entire sub-culture of the internet dedicated to orchids. Second, how does this monkey face orchid look so much like a monkey?

Nature is so incredible. However, my cynicism popped up on this one… was this flower crafted in a lab? Did men in white coats decide that an orchid would look cool with a monkey face on it, and then go about splitting genes or whatever to make it happen?

The orchid known as Dracula Simia is also called the dracula orchid, or the monkey faced dracula orchid. And it turns out that it was not created in a lab by monkey-and-orchid-obsessed scientists.