<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="line-height:19px"><font color="#333333" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif">Pollination</font><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> of purple fringed orchid (<i>Platanthera psycodes</i>) at Mt. Mitchell State Park, North Carolina — 2015-06-28</font></span><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:22.3999996185303px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">A blog by Jim Fowler, Greenville, South Carolina, photographer and wild orchid enthusiast </span><br></font></p><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:22.3999996185303px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:22.3999996185303px">This blog entry is intended for the orchid nerds in our midst and for anyone else who is interested in orchid pollination…I</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> struggled a bit with how to present this topic in my blog. My last visit to Mt. Mitchell State Park in the North Carolina mountains provided me with the opportunity to witness the pollination process of</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> </span><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Platanthera psycodes</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px">or</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> </span><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">Small Purple Fringed orchid</strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22.3999996185303px">.</span></p><p style="margin:15px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:22.3999996185303px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="line-height:22.3999996185303px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Full story: <a href="http://www.jfowlerphotography.com/?p=5447" target="_blank">http://www.jfowlerphotography.com/?p=5447</a></font></span><br></p></div></div></div></div>
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