Still Plants

We can affirm that given the vastness of this family, it is doubtlessly that she is one of richest of the vegetal kingdom disputing the first site only with Composed (” margaritas” by not ” entendidos”). The Orchids are Phanerogamic plants, that is to say plants that have hacinados reproductive organs and belong: Phylum: Euphyta Division: Angiospermae, that is supplied plants of flower and fruit Class: Monocotiledneas, what means that they are plants that have a single embryonic leaf (a cotyledon) Order: Gynandreae Family: Orchidaceae Inasmuch as it concerns the Sort they exist about 650 while the Species are about 25.000. The hybrids are innumerable (close 100,000).

They are common in all site but for most they are original of the humid zones of the intertropical strip. In Italy we have about 85 spontaneous species of orchids, distribudas in the humid zones is of mountain or in proximity of the coasts, many of extremely rare them and in danger of extinction and like such prote’ge’es against the indiscriminate collection. The species, different among them, reach the maximum of the ecological differentiation with adaptations from the different surroundings and floral productions between most beautiful from the vegetal kingdom. The classification of the orchids is quite complex because multiple hybridisations between species and also between different sorts make the botanical classification uncertain. It is enough to think that in the last 150 years have been produced more than 110,000 hybrids (called grexes or grex). Luckily they have quite uniform general characters if a plan of floral organization were considered and offer therefore a rare example of a infinity of forms, colors, adaptations that converge everything in a unique floral typology.