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New species found in Vietnam...(non-CP)

  • Thread starter Fryster
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Nice find, the legendary black orchid.
 
That's an orchid? The flowers are not zygomorphic and it appears to have a bunch of anthers in the center, I think the caption is on the wrong picture.
 
"The other new plant species include one in the aspidistra family, which produces a black flower and can subsist in low light"

I think you are right.
 
Yeh.
Thanks for posting! I love this kind of stuff!

Theres a photo gallery of some of the new species here. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/photogalleries/Vietnam-pictures/index.html
Their photo of the black flower indeed lists it as a aspidistra
Some samples. Visit the site for descriptions.
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