Glossodia
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For the suburb of Sydney in Australia, see Glossodia, New South Wales.
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Glossodia are a small family of mostly purple orchids from Australia. In spring vast numbers of Glossodia major flower on uncleared land.
[edit] Cultivation
Glossodia are hard to maintain in cultivation, growing from seed in-vitro has yielded very poor results, and plants rescued from land clearing usually last only a few years. This is most likely due to the complete reliance on a symbiotic fungus for food. The orchid forms no roots and gets all its food from interacting with mycorrhizal fungus through its 'collar'. A reasonably successful solution to this is to grow new plants in the same pot from the produced seed each year. This usually requires hand pollenation but can lead to a reasonably large collection of plants over many years.
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