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	Ophrys -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The genus Ophrys is a large group of (Any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors) orchids from the alliance Orchis in the subtribe Orchidinae.
		Ophrys was first mentioned in the book "Natural History" by (Roman author of an encylclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)) Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD).
		During summer all Ophrys orchids are dormant as an underground bulbous (A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage) tuber, which serves as a food reserve.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/op/ophrys.htm (1687 words)

	Growing orchids in garden - Ophrys, species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ophrys creticum is endemic plant to Greece (not to Crete!).
		Ophrys scolopax is a typical Mediterranean Ophrys, perhaps also a hardy one.
		Ophrys sphegodes should be one of the hardiest members of its genus.
	www.geocities.com /orkoti/ophryse2.html (231 words)

	myorchids/Ophrys
		Ophrys insectifera is very often the dominant parent in flower shape.
		Ophrys insectifera-hybrids are frost hardy up to -12°C. Ophrys fuciflora-hybrids.
		Ophrys fuciflora inherits its large flower, otherwise the hybrids are much closer to the other parent.
	www.myorchids.de /ophrys1.htm (430 words)

	Camb. Flora Part I: Ophrys sphegodes
		Ophrys aranifera It is also found in Cambridgeshire, always on a chalky soil, and varying much as to the number of flowers.
		Went by coach to Linton, with HC Rothery, B.A., of St. John's, and then walked to the usual hills and open places to which Henslow's class have been accustomed to go, but found that the two open places on which the most interesting plants were found, had been ploughed up.
		Ophrys aranifera This was found some years ago by the late Mr John Prince, surgeon of Balsham, on balks at Horseheath.
	www.mnlg.com /gc/species1/o/oph_sph.html (528 words)

	Camb. Flora Part I: Ophrys insectifera
		Ophrys insectifera O. muscifera Found in meadows and pastures on a chalky soil, but not very common.
		Ophrys muscifera In a field near Steeple Morden.
		Ophrys muscifera In plenty in the plantations at the back of the garden at Bottisham Hall, Jenyns,1860.
	www.mnlg.com /gc/species1/o/oph_ins.html (743 words)

	Ophrys bombyliflora (Bumblebee Orchid) - Wild Plants of Malta (by Stephen Mifsud) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ophrys bombyliflora (Bumblebee Orchid) - Wild Plants of Malta (by Stephen Mifsud)
		A Eurasian genus Ophrys has flowers that look and smell so much like female bumble bees that males flying nearby are irresistibly drawn in, such as with the Bumblebee Orchid (Ophrys bombyliflora).
		The viscidium, and thus pollinia, stick to the head or the abdomen of the bumblebee.
	www.maltawildplants.com /ORCH/Ophrys_bombyliflora.html (2191 words)

	ophrys
		Our first attempt involved 2 species: Ophrys apifera (2 color forms white and pink) and Ophrys holoserica.
		Because we're new at this to be on the safe side we give all our seed a 24 hour pre soak in a sugar solution, after drawing as much air as possible from the vacutainer tube we checked it to make sure the seed had sunk- a process that took about an our to complete.
		When I wrote before I mentioned Ophrys bombiflora but that was a later sowing.
	members.cox.net /lmlauman/osp/html/ophrys.html (384 words)

	Ophry's - Bulb Gardening (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Ophrys genus is native to Central & South Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, and in Asia in the Caucasus Mountains.
		The Ophrys Scolofax grows up to 15” tall, as do most of the Ophrys species, and is native to South Europe.
		These are some of the more interesting plants that I have come across, and although I have never tried to grow one yet, Ophrys are definately on my wish list.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art4035.asp (272 words)

	Specimen Data from The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium Hosted by The New York Botanical Garden
		During his lifetime Dr Renz worked as a Director of 'Sandoz' (now amalgamated into 'Novartis'), but his passion was his research into the Orchidaceae.
		His Publications total almost 100 taxonomic and floristic articles, and he is particularly well-known in the field of nomenclature of European, Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern terrestrial orchids (especially in the genera Ophrys, Orchis, Dactylorhiza and Epipactis), and for his work on the genus Habenaria, which he was was revising world-wide.
		Ophrys insecrtifera L. Ophrys insectifera L. Ophrys insectifera L. : Fr.
	www.nybg.org /bsci/hcol/renz (537 words)

	Orchid Literature
		Amardeilh, J. Ophrys subinsectifera Hermosilla et Sabando, une nouvelle Orchidee du nord de l'Espagne.
		Arnold, J. Notas para una revision del genero Ophrys L. (Orchidaceae) en Cataluna: 2.
		Engel, R., Mathe, H., and Seveleder, O. Validation d' Ophrys fuciflora subsp.
	www.orchids.mu /Bibliography.htm (3127 words)

	Jay's Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia Or - Oz
		An example: *~Ophrys bicolor Naegeli - See Ophrys** apifera var.
		~Orchis fuciflora Crantz 1769 - See Ophrys fuciflora (F.W. Schmidt) Moench 1842
		~Orchis myodes (Jacq.) Bernhard 1800 - See Ophrys insectifera Linne 1753
	www.orchidspecies.com /indexor.htm (5939 words)

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