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So you think you know all about the birds and the bees. Orchids live by different rules, as we will learn from our correspondent in Gothenburg, Sweden. We are at the Gothenburg International Orchid show to learn what separates the orchids and its lovers from the rest of the crowd. Orchids are everywhere. Some are big while others you can hardly see them except through the magnifying glass. Some orchids even live inside what looks like an aquarium. So what separates them from other flowers? [Thomas Andersson, West Swedish Orchid Society]: “They are not as other plants, they don’t behave as other plants, because of this they are consider mystical. There is no stamen and pistil, almost every orchid type have an insect, bird or other animal connected to it that pollinates them. So it has to be right insects, right time all this for an orchid to be pollinated.” That means if these specific insects or birds disappear so does the orchids. There are also extremely valuable and rare orchids that can cost up to more then several thousands of dollars like this small one unique for Borneo. But bigger specimens of this orchid could cost up to 5 times more then that. Thomas shares his small 50 square meter home with his 200 orchids. [Thomas Andersson, West Swedish Orchid Society]: “You can have them in the bathroom, on the wall, the sealing. You can have them on the pedestal. Everywhere! So only place without orchid at home is the bed, stove and the sofa. No! By the way, orchids are on

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With An Orchid from the album If I Could Tell You – Yanni 2000 The voiceless version of Ni La Fuerza Del Destino – Yanni voces 2009

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Eye candy from the World Orchid Conference. Most of the plants were for sale. Many of the orchids were new verities.

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