An Exotic Beauty: Comet Orchid
Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world behind New Guinea, Borneo and Greenland. With its variety of ecosystems and relative isolation, Madagascar has given rise to some strange creatures. But the bizarre also is tempered by the beautiful. Such is the case with the comet orchid Angraecum sesquipedale, a flower whose biology imbues it with an uncommon grace. …