Once again the orchids are on display at the Missouri Botanical Garden. I snapped some photos or these incredible beings. After all, they are our cousins. Richard Dawkins estimates that animals diverged from the plant kingdom about two billion years ago.
I’ve written previously about Darwin’s fascination with orchids here. For today, I will simply paste in a few new photos of these incredibly beautiful plants. I’ve posted many more of my photos of today’s show at one of my public web albums at Picasa.
I like the flowers! I saw the show too. It was great!
Number three is actually the pitcher (not the flower) of a Nepenthes, a type of carnivorous plant, not an orchid (even better than an orchid, I say!). Oh wait, there are orchids in the background.