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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{for|the suburb of Sydney in Australia|Glossodia, New South Wales}}<br /> {{Taxobox<br /> | color = lightgreen<br /> | name = WaxLip orchids<br /> | regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br /> | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br /> | classis = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]<br /> | ordo = [[Asparagales]]<br /> | familia = [[Orchidaceae]]<br /> | genus = '''''Glossodia'''''<br /> | genus_authority = [[Robert Brown (botanist)|R.Br.]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> Glossodia are a small family of mostly purple orchids from Australia. In spring vast numbers of ''Glossodia major'' flower on uncleared land.<br /> <br /> == Cultivation ==<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> {{Orchid-stub}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Orchid genera]]<br /> [[Category:Orchids of Australia]]</div>

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