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These Orchid pictures were taken at Longwood Botanical Gardens just south of Philadelphia PA and near the Delaware border. Longwood Gardens has both in door all year greenhouse and huge outside gardens with fountains and ponds. The gardens were donated by the Dupont family and are open 7 days aweek. |
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Orchids (Orchidaceae family) are the largest and most diverse of the flowering plant families. Some sources give 30,000 species, but the exact number is unknown since classification differs greatly in the academic world. Revisions of different genera occur on a monthly basis and this will increase with the growing use of genetic research and biochemistry. There are another 100,000+ hybrids that have been cultivated. The Kew World Checklist of Orchids includes about 24,000 accepted species. About 800 new species are added each year. My gallery displays just a few of these species. |
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Hawaii was first inhabited in roughly AD 1000, by Polynesian settlers who came from islands in the South Pacific, including the Marquesas, followed by others from Raiatea and Bora Bora. For nearly 800 years, the people of Hawai lived in a complex ranked society characterized by ramages of chiefs, priests (kahuna), and special classes of experts including navigators, engineers, farmers, fishers, dancers, medics, artisans and warriors. An extensive system of religious and social taboos called the kapu system organized social action. Most kapu were designed to manage the social and political effects of mana and marshall human-environment resources. British explorer James Cook chanced upon the Hawaiian archipelago in 1778 in what is commonly assumed to be the first European contact with Hawaiians; however, substantial evidence (Stokes 1932 for example) exists of earlier Spanish visits to Hawaiʻi. Cook returned on several occasions. His visits were the most significant, leading to influx of missionaries, disease, and merchants. Opportunistically exploiting the foreign advisors and their weapons, a Hawaiian warrior known as Kamehameha began a gradual ascent to power. Before his death in 1819, Kamehameha had succeeded in consolidating (through military force, or in the case of Kaua and Ni ihau by political means) all of the major Hawaiian islands, a feat never before accomplished in the history of the islands.
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