By ERIC STAATS (Contact)
Originally published 2:19 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Updated 6:26 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, 2009
NAPLES — It was about lunch time, and the three men had been traipsing through the swamp at Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park for a couple hours.
They did not know they were about to step into the botanical history books with the rediscovery of a lost orchid species.
But there it was last Saturday, Cyclopogon elatus, a flowering spike shooting up from a rotting log.
“It’s a pretty big find,” Fakahatchee Strand park biologist Mike Owen said Tuesday afternoon.(read more)
Photo by Chris Little
Photo by Chris Little
1 comment:
This is really good news and the plant is beautiful.
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