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Orchids of Arabia |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / NATURE WALK |
| Author: Eric Hansen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 2,258 Words, 15,038 Characters |
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I wasn’t looking for orchids when my driver, Abdul Ali, pulled to the side of the road at the top of the Summarah Pass between Ta’izz and Jiblah in Yemen. For a better view and to stretch our legs after a long morning in the car, we decided to hike up a grassy slope to a spot where, at around 2,500 meters’ (8000') elevation, we came upon a population of unusually beautiful flowers. At the time, I didn’t I suspect that the plant was an orchid--Habenaria macanthra, to be exact--or that orchids grew anywhere in the Arabian Peninsula. I thought orchids were just exotic tropical plants that produced showy flowers for ladies’ ball gowns or the lobbies of five-star hotels. So limited was my knowledge at the time, in fact, that I assumed orchids grew only in humid jungles.
As I later dis...
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--"A Mecca for Tropical Biologists," by Michael H. Robinson, March 1991 (Article #19797)
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2006 print edition of Saudi Aramco World. Copyright © 2006 Aramco Services Company. All Rights Reserved.
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