NORTH CYPRUS ORCHIDS

The Environment that we inherited and the next generateon will inherit from us is worth of more awareness and love... There is a mysterious sense at the word 'Orchid ... "It Has to Be Known to Love"
From this point on, we prepared this inventory of the orchids of our beautiful island, Cyprus.

Our duties include the possession of orchids in a way to protect them by introducing them. Perhaps it will be suitable to begin our words saying: "What is orchid? And is wild orchid present in the environment we live in?

The terms orchid anticipates an expensive plant with pleasant odour and eye-catching colours. It is generally presented to women.

But beyond its prevalent image and being man s favourite for centuries, orchids, as mysterious individuals of the nature, are not far from us.

Perhaps we met most of them during a picnic, or during a walk we had with friends in the country but we didn't noticed them perhaps we were not interested in them.

If you get acquainted with orchids or get interested in them for the first time, our web site will be a good guide for you at the beginning.

All the plants, covered in this web site are the orchid growing naturally in Northern Cyprus. Of these thirty two taxes on, one is endemic to Cyprus. The others are the members widespread in five continents.

With this information, we prepared and presented, both botanic specialists and passionate amateur’s lowers of nature will have the opportunity to know closely the orchids of Northern Cyprus Orchids

The family Orchidaceous, thought to have originated from the Liliaceous family, is one of the largest and most evolved plant families in the entire plant kingdom. Orchids (Orchidaceous) comprise the most diverse family of plants, with over 25,000 described species in 400 to 800 genera worldwide.

The Amazon is among the world's richest sources of native orchids, from where thousands of species are described and many more undoubtedly remain to be discovered.

Orchids are differ from other flowering plants because they have: their stamens and pistils (male and female parts) fused together in one structure known as a column three petals and three petal-like sepals usually has one different petal that forms a lip or labellum’s making the flower laterally symmetrical the pollen is usually bound together in a few large masses known as pollinate their flowers twists around during development known as recuperation.

Ecology of Orchids

The ecology of orchids is a complex topic as the flowers themselves. Orchids have a large habitat diversity and can be found almost anywhere in the world, especially in tropical and warm temperate regions.

Many orchids live on other plants (epiphytic), on decayed material (saprophytic) or independent as usual plants (auto tropic).

Nearly all orchids are pollinated by insects notably bees and wasps, but also butterflies, ants, flies and others. Moreover, almost every orchid species is pollinated by just one or two kinds of insects.

Even though there are plentiful, many of them may go extinct if its pollinator insect dies out.

North Cyprus Orchids

Because of their rarity and beauty, orchids hold a special fascination for all naturalists. At North Cyprus, the orchid flora consists of 32 confirmed species, subspecies and varieties and a further three or five which presence needs verifying.

Some species will be familiar to botanists from north-western Europe, such as pyramidal orchid and autumn lady's tresses, but there are also more exotic species including violet limodore, tongue-flowered serapes, naked man orchid and more.

No doubt more observant botanists will find these and other orchid species more frequently but we think it s true to say that they are localized and hence always a delight when stumbled upon.