by Sherman Bloom

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Lady Slipper

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This is a fine example of a common orchid. There are things about this image, and many orchid images, that suggest something sexual, but this is just a flower, and why it should convey a sense of sex is unclear to me. What we are looking at here are the structures that are involved in inducing an insect to pollenate this plant. This is not a simple process, and the anatomic details are not simple. But they are interesting and attractive.

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