US (FL): Rare Florida orchids transplanted from lab onto school trees
Jason Downing of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden showed about 25 high school students how to use burlap twine and coconut fibers to tie the plants with thin green leaves and dangling white roots onto tree branches in an arboretum at Jose Marti MAST Academy in Hialeah.
"There are very few of these left in the wild," he told them. A single box of seedlings held by one student had twice as many plants as the largest known cluster of cowhorn orchids growing in the wild.
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