Scientists spent 3 years learning to grow a flower just so it could meet its one true bee.
Scientists and Volunteers Take Big Step Towards Saving Rare ‘Cryptic’ Australian Orchid
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria volunteers and scientists have cultivated over 500 rosella spider orchids, five times the known wild population, for reintroduction into secret sites where their sole pollinator, the native bee Leioproctus platycephalus, lives. The orchids require a specific fungus to germinate, making propagation painstaking.
Source: Scientists and Volunteers Take Big Step Towards Saving Rare ‘Cryptic’ Australian Orchid — Good News Network
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