September 09, 2004
El Comercio, a Peruvian Newspaper, reports an exciting orchid habitat find
by an engineer in the department of Huancavelica at 3700 m.a.s.l.
Reporter Raul May Filio writes that the habitat has 145 orchid species in 42
genera,
and that many of the species are unknown to science. It was estimated that
there are
some 70,000 orchid flowers per 2.5 acres.
President of the Huancavelica region, Salvador Espinoza, has stated that the
area will
immediately declared a National Reserve.
{personal note: at this height above sea level, I estimate day temperatures to
be
around the 18C (65F) and night temperatures as low as 10C (50F) Thus orchids
from this habitat will certainly be cool growing}
peter
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