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Orchids have been popular since ancient times. However, the environment they grew
in and lack of skills to grow them in gardens prevented orchids from being imported
to Europe before the 18th century. Travellers who saw orchids in wild nature
considered them to be parasites and thought it was impossible to grow them in
gardens, therefore, they demonstrated no interest in them. There were occasional
attempts to take tropic orchids to Europe and grow them, however, all of them turned
unsuccessful. The first tropic orchid taken to Europe was bdetsiya purple, which
grew on the ground, had pink red flowers on a up to 1 meter-long stem. It was taken
to England from Bahamas in 1733. In the late 18th – early 19th centuries numerous
expeditions were sent to Central America with exploration purposes. Explorers were
impressed by the huge amount and variety of orchids growing there and were lucky to
find new varieties of this plant. Very soon rich patrons of art found it prestigious to collect tropic rarities. They were no short of funds or will to obtain rare flowers brought from overseas. The export of flora and fauna turned out to be a profitable business and the tropics were flooded by crowds of adventurers striving to make money on the never-seen-before exotic flowers. It was a true ‘gold rush’. Plant collectors hired local people to pick up flowers. Or, they followed wood-cutters and examined trees that were chopped down. Sometimes gold rushers were lucky and they were unable to carry away heaps of plants. In the late 20th century the demand for orchids grew so dramatically that their mere existence were under threat. Considering predatory collection of the plants an international treaty was signed in Washington in the 70s of the last century, which banned trade of wild orchids. |
 First orchids were brought to Great Britain from the Bahamas  Orchids are usually presented to sensual females  Orchids are regarded as the world’s most popular flowers |
