Singapore: It takes years for a newly created orchid hybrid to flower
One day after former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew died in March, the National Parks Board announced that it had named a hybrid orchid in his honour.
But the new orchid, which has bright golden flowers with a green tinge, was years in the making.
Mr Simon Tan, 31, assistant director of the Botanic Gardens' National Orchid Garden, told The Straits Times that the Aranda Lee Kuan Yew orchid had taken about four years from the day its parents were crossed to its first flowering.
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