San Leandro, CA (Zone 9b) | January 2018 | neutral
Per Rogier van Vugt, the Head Gardener at the greenhouses at Leiden University and at Hortus botanicus Leiden, from Noordwijk, Zuid-...Read MoreHolland, Netherlands descibes this plant:
"Chiloglottis truncata from Australia is a tiny terrestrial orchid that mimics the female of a certain wasp. The male gets all excited, tries to lift up with his new partner but instead the hinge in the flower pushes it against the pollen. Flower gets pollinated and the wasp ends up with nothing."
Per Rogier van Vugt, the Head Gardener at the greenhouses at Leiden University and at Hortus botanicus Leiden, from Noordwijk, Zuid-...Read More