Orchid Interview
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- Thank you so much for having me! I have a leafless, yellowish or pinkish brown stem and produce up to 25 small, yellow-brown or purplish flowers. My petals and sepals are often strongly veined with brown or purple and my labellum is tan or purple white, usually 3-lobed and with undulate margins. I have no leaves at all, which is pretty uncommon.
- Thank you for joining us, Bletia Spicata. My first question is about your appearance. Please tell us about your labellum, leaf arrangement, height and color.
- Yellow and purple are two of my favorite colors! Alright, I have heard that you can survive in a wide variety of habitats. Can you talk a little bit more about that?
- Of course! I can live in many places from swaps to desert canyons in the southwest. Typically, I grow mesic to dry soil in forests and over sandstone or limestone.
- We are also very interested in how you grow. Can you tell us about that?
- I have non coralloid rhizomes in my roots. Normally, I grow to be around 20-80 centimeters tall. I am also myco-heterotrophic and obtain nutrients not from photosynthesis but through mycorrhizal fungi.
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