Captive orchids Dixon and his team already managed to grow a living, captive collection of Rhizanthella orchids with their fungi and bushes once, in the 1990s. That collection died around 2000 due human error, in the form of an unclear watering rota that left the plants dried out after one Christmas holiday, he says. While frustrating, this did not seem …
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