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Singapore: World's oldest orchid?

An orchid plant in the Singapore Botanic Gardens could well be the largest and oldest in the world, staff at the newly minted Unesco World Heritage Site have discovered.

The tiger orchid is about 5m in diameter and has been growing in the same spot at the intersection of two paths, near the Curtain of Roots Walk, in the Gardens for the past 154 years. Going by research by the Gardens' staff, no other orchid has been found anywhere else which is as old or as large.

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