With more than 30,000 natural species worldwide, orchids are very fragile plants. To sustain their life cycles they need damp soil, fungi and pollinators. They are easily affected by the smallest change in the area where they live. In this respect they give a clear picture of the health of the environment they live in. Their disappearance is like an important warning system that something is going wrong in nature.
Orchids of Türkiye
Threatened with extinction
An investment in the future
Stages of the conservation approach
- Obtaining seed through controlled cross-pollination
- Bringing the seeds into culture and propagating them
- Adapting the propagated individuals to the wild
Reproduction for both today and tomorrow
- Seed size
- 0.1–0.2 mm
- Plantlets grown in the laboratory
- 5–6 cm
- Orchid species from which seed was obtained through artificial pollination
- 40+
