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Rights and Humanity claims to have played a significant role in shaping global policy and practice through the integration of a "human rights approach". [2] It has chosen to focus on various priority issues of the day, including HIV/AIDS, poverty, health, water, [3] and sanitation, [4] participatory democracy, cultural rights, [5] complex emergencies, and the global financial crisis.
Orchids, My Intersex Adventure [1] is an auto-biographical [2] 2010 documentary about one woman's struggle to understand her own intersex variation while interviewing ...
It is one of the world's largest potted orchid growers. [5] It takes two to three years for the plants to grow from sprouts to store shelves. Matsui Nursery has about 10 million potted orchids continuously in production in 75 acres of greenhouse. The orchids are shipped across the U.S. and globally. [6] [better source needed]
Schomburgkia was a genus of plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae.This genus was named for Richard Schomburgk, a German botanist who explored British Guiana during the 19th century.
It is similar to other orchids in the Dactylorhiza maculata group. D. maculata ssp. maculata is distinguished by having the lip less deeply trilobed, while D. maculata subsp. saccifera has one spur large and saccular (sac-shaped) and the bracts of the inflorescence as long as or longer than the flowers.
Corallorhiza odontorhiza, common name fall coral-root or small-flowered coral-root, is a species of orchid widespread across eastern and central United States, and reported also from Mexico, Central America, Quebec and Ontario. In North America, it occurs in forested areas up to an elevation of 2800 m (9300 feet). [1] [5] [6] [7]
Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), occurring mainly in Europe and Northwest Africa, and ranging as far as Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang. [1] The name is from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις orchis , meaning "testicle", from the appearance of the paired subterranean tuberoids .
Prosthechea cochleata is the national flower of Belize, where it is known as the black orchid. [53] Lycaste skinneri has a white variety (alba) that is the national flower of Guatemala, commonly known as Monja Blanca (White Nun). Panama's national flower is the Holy Ghost orchid (Peristeria elata), or 'the flor del Espiritu Santo'.