Botanical trivia

Hope you all find this as interesting as I did....
Keep growing.
C.....

* A mystery solved... DNA studies have finally solved a long-standing horticultural puzzle -- where do orchids come from? It turns out that orchids are a member of the asparagus family, which, beyond the title vegetable, includes vanilla, agave and daffodils. Until now, scientists believed orchids were relatively new plants, evolutionarily speaking. The DNA tells a different story. It looks like it is actually the oldest member of the Asparagales family. Source: NY Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/06/science/life/06ORCH.html (available to NY Subscribers only)

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