{"id":9,"date":"2015-06-15T21:27:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fancyplants.de\/de\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2019-10-14T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T12:23:29","slug":"orchidshome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fancyplants.de\/en\/orchidshome\/","title":{"rendered":"European Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"
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European Orchids<\/h1><\/span>
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Overview<\/h2><\/span>
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Most people immediately think that orchids are beautiful tropical plants with large flowers. In fact, this association is not wrong because the majority of the circa 20.000 species of this plant family grow in the tropics. But also in Europe are circa 700 wild growing orchid species. The family of orchids (Orchidaceae<\/i>) belongs within the class of angiosperms (Magnoliopsida<\/i>) to the monocotyledons (Monokotyledonen). Whether the flowers of a species are only a few millimetres large and inconspicuous or the flowers are almost giant and very colourful, the flower structure always follows the same groundplan. The flower is stalked or sessile with an epigynous ovary. The pedicel or the ovary is mostly rotated 180\u00b0 so that the lip points downward. By a few European species this rotation remains undone or a rotation by 360\u00b0 is existent so that the lip points upward.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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