VideoQueen's Blog

All sorts of fruits to make your mouth water. Yummy I am ready to eat some fruit right now just by looking at all these fruit pictures.

 

 

Nature provides us with many options in vitamins.  Many fruits can be liquefied and the juice is a liquid vitamin versus the solid piece of fruit we bite into. Which fruit is on your plate today? Apples, oranges, bananas, cherries, berries, mango's, or something else? Potassium, anti oxidants, vitamin C, it is all in our fruits. 

She Said Share!!!!!

Often our cats are realy sweet to eachother but tonight they had to test eachothers strength. Both cats are male, although the picture is not all that clear you can see there was not much sharing besides their pose for this picture. Animals can be a lot like children and their fight was simply over some catnip.  

Orchids

Orchidaceae family are the largest and most diverse of the flowering plant Angiospermae families, with over 800 described genera and 25,000 species. Some sources give 30,000 species, but the exact number is unknown since classification differs greatly in the academic world. There are another 100,000+ hybrids and cultivars produced by horticulturists, created since the introduction of tropical species in the 19th century. The Kew World Checklist of Orchids includes about 24,000 accepted species. About 800 new species are added each year. Orchids, through their interactions with pollinators and their symbiosis with orchid mycorrhizal fungi, are considered by some, along with the grasses, to be examples of the most advanced (derived) floral evolution known.

All orchid species are protected for the purposes of international commerce under CITES as potentially threatened or endangered in their natural habitat, with most species listed under Appendix II. A number of species and genera are afforded protection under Appendix I, including all Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium, and Selenipedium species. Many other species are protected by both international and national legislation, and while hybrids are supposed to be specifically exempted, hybrid orchids are not allowed into the United States without a CITES permit. Source Wikipedia

There are many types of specializations within the Orchidaceae. Best known are the seemingly endless structural variations in the flowers that encourage pollination by particular species of insects, bats, or birds.

Most African orchids are white, while Asian orchids are often multicolored. Some orchids only grow one flower on each stem, others sometimes more than a hundred together on a single spike. Text Source Wikipedia