Monday, January 30, 2017

Winter Festival of orchids will open the New Year

Tropical paradise located in the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary Garden» c 24 December 2011 to 18 March 2012. This is the third exhibition in the Palm House after its reconstruction.

 Winter Festival of orchids will open the New Year

Guests Orchid Festival   will be able to see not only orchids, but also hundreds of other flowering and decorative foliage plants. From curiosities will be presented the fruits of cocoa, coffee, pineapple, pepper, avocado.

 Winter Festival of orchids will open the New Year

For young spectators Winter Orchid Festival   a collection of carnivorous plants: Venus flycatchers, rosyanok, kuvshinochnikov and other "predators" of the vegetable kingdom. These plants demonstrate the sophisticated tools to catch and digest small insects and sometimes rodents. However, feeding them it is prohibited in winter the plants need a special diet.

 Winter Festival of orchids will open the New Year

But, of course, the center of attention - luxury Orchid   - The largest family of the plant kingdom. The lion's share of the variety of colors inhabit the tropics, where every year botany open 100-200 new species. The flowers of some plants reflect reflection of light, the other - sometimes the most unexpected exude scents (incense, dust, naphthalene, etc.). Some Orchid   smell all the time, others begin to emit a fragrant aroma only at nightfall. And now all of their mysterious charm will be felt not in the distant journey, and in Moscow.



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