Orchids get special home in Bogor<\/p>\n
Theresia Sufa, The Jakarta Post, Bogor<\/p>\n
A worker at the orchid pavilion at the Bogor Botanical Gardens
\nattaches several epiphytical orchids to the trunk of a devil
\ntree, locally known as a Lame (Alstonia scholaris).<\/p>\n
The garden's flora conservation unit has set up an
\norchidarium, where researchers and visitors can observe the life
\ncycle of the wild flower.<\/p>\n
Unit head Sudjati Budi Susetyo said the pavilion would be home
\nto a wide variety of orchids, including the huge Gramatophylum
\nspesiusum, and house both terrestrial orchids that grew on soil
\nand epiphytic types that grew on trees.<\/p>\n
Mango, meranti and kemang trees (Mangifera caesia) are all
\nplanted in the center and are common homes for the flowers.<\/p>\n
\"The orchidarium enables the plants to live in their natural
\nhabitat; no longer in a green house,\" Sudjati said.<\/p>\n
There are at least 25,000 species of orchids in the world, of
\nwhich one quarter of them can be found in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Out of the 700 genera of orchids found in the country, 400 are
\nin the parks' collection.<\/p>",
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