ophrys การใช้

• Most " Ophrys " orchids are dependent on symbiotic fungi.
• Only about 10 % of an " Ophrys " population gets pollinated.
• "Ophrys kotschyi " occurs in grasslands and in open pine woodlands.
• Visual signals also enhance the attractiveness of the flowers of some Ophrys species to their pollinators.
• There is also a notable cluster of Bee Orchids ( " Ophrys apifera " ) within the reserve.
• After the bee orchid, " Ophrys apifera ", it is the most successful orchid coloniser of waste land.
• Every " Ophrys " orchid has its own pollinator insect and is completely dependent on this species for its survival.
• During summer, all " Ophrys " orchids are dormant as underground bulbous tubers, which serve as a food reserve.
• This is enough to preserve the population, since each " Ophrys " orchid produces about 12, 000 minute seeds.
• Some sympodial terrestrial orchids, such as " Orchis " and " Ophrys ", have two subterranean tuberous roots.
• "Ophrys bombyliflora " is pollinated by males of pollinia in the process which they transfer to other flowers of the same species.
• The first scientific description of a species of this genus was made in 1815 by Karl Sigismund Kunth, naming it first " Ophrys paleacea"
• The nationally rare late spider orchid ( " Ophrys fuciflora " ) is limited within the British Isles to chalk grassland between Folkestone and Wye.
• Their scientific name " Ophrys " is the Greek word for " eyebrow ", referring to the furry edges of the lips of several species.
• The primacy of olfactory over visual cues has been demonstrated in many cases, such as in the European orchid genus Ophrys as well as many Australian sexually deceptive orchids.
• ""'Habronattus ophrys " "'is a species of spider from a Salticidae family, that can be found in the United States.
• For example, a lamellicorn beetle, which usually pollinates correspondingly colored " Cistus " flowers, is also known to aid in pollination of " Ophrys " species that are normally pollinated by bees.
• Some male scoliid wasps such as " Campsoscolia ciliata " are more attracted to the Ophrys flowers odours than to the odours of the female wasps, although they both attract the males with the same compounds.
• On some hidden parts of the reserve orchids like the dark red helleborine ( " Epipactis atrorubens " ) the fly orchid ( " Ophrys insectifera " ) and many others grow year by year.
• Plants of interest include arbutus, beech, Cedar of Lebanon, liquidambar, oak, redwood, collections of roses and ophrys of Aveyron, and displays of about 10, 000 flowering plants renewed twice a year.