The Orchid Is Also a Flower. The orchid’s secret properties for promoting youth, wellbeing and natural health.
20 April 2013
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The orchid flower might well prove to hold properties that could greatly enhance our health, skin quality, hair vitality, and even – if scientists can discover the secret to its long life span – our longevity.
The beauty and popularity of orchids has fascinated people throughout the centuries, but there is a lot more to this plant species than meets the eye.
It is a common truth that all orchids are tropical. They are believed to be one of the oldest species of plants in the world. Over a century ago, orchid foragers often died while collecting them in jungles –but eventually, gardeners unlocked the secret of propagating wild orchids in greenhouses.
The German physician and botanist, Jacob Breynius (1665- 1721), who first discovered the existence of sexes in plants, once described orchids in a highly poetic manner: “If nature ever showed her playfulness in the formation of plants, this is visible in the most striking way among the orchids. Nature has formed orchid flowers in such a way that, unless they make us laugh, they surely excite our greatest admiration.”
Breynius was the director of the botanical gardens at Tübingen, Germany. In 1687 he was one of the first botanists to discover sexual differentiation in plants by identifying and defining the male (anther) and female (pistil) reproductive parts, and, in turn, outlining their functions in fertilisation.
The first tropical orchids were imported to England in 1731. The first orchid nursery was established in London in 1812. The public were greatly surprised to find that the plant could grow and flower outside its natural rainforest habitat.
The orchid comes from the family of flowering plants known as Orchidaceae, a name which comes from the Greek word ‘orchis’, meaning ‘testicles’ –so called because of the bulbous shape of the plant’s root tubers. For that reason, the orchid has been associated in many cultures with sexuality, fertility, and procreation.
It was the Ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus of Lesbos (c.371-c.287 BC) – known as the “father of botany” – who first coined the name ‘orchis’…
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