Flower language and legend of crystal orchid

Crystal orchid, also known as dream orchid, water orchid, silver key, death flower, etc., is not an orchid, nor is it a mushroom. It is a perennial herb of the pyrola family, because it never carries out photosynthesis and relies on rotten plants to get nutrients. It is called the flower of death. Let's take a look at the flower words and legends of Crystal Orchid.

The floral language of Crystal Orchid

Beautiful spirit, fragile without city mansion. The designs and colors of crystal orchids are different, and the meaning of flower tales is also different. White represents sincerity, harmlessness and fragility, yellow represents love tales, thank you for your love, green represents love tales, but likes you, blue represents pure love tales, I only care about you, purple represents romantic tales, wonderful with you, pink represents love tales and loves you for a lifetime.

The habit of Crystal Orchid

Crystal orchid gets organic nutrition completely from the soil. The whole epidermis of the root is covered with mycelium of some kind of fungus. The mycelium is 1-2 times thicker than the epidermis itself. The ends of the roots are in the fungal sheath, and individual or fascicled hyphae separate from the fungal sheath from all sides, unlike parasitic fungi, which are only on the surface of the root and do not invade the root tissue. Obviously, the crystal orchid is undertaken by the hyphae to provide nutrition, and the hyphae replace the crystal orchid root hair physiologically.

The Legend of Crystal Orchid

Crystal orchid is not a rare "ghost" in nature. as long as you know its habits and choose a good place and time, everyone can see it. The best time to watch crystal orchids is generally around mid-April in the south and a little later in the north. The crystal orchids seen in this period are the most perfect. The crystal orchid has not yet germinated prematurely, and in the evening, due to the gradual aging, there will be brown spots on the body, so it will not be able to appreciate its clear, transparent, dream-like beauty.

Crystal orchid's unique habits and magical appearance make it often appear as a ghost flower in traditional Chinese martial arts novels and legends, either deified into fairy grass that can bring the dead back to life. or it is regarded as an evil thing with psychic power and can kill people invisibly, and even describes its delicate fragrance as creepy, perhaps this is the origin of its name "ghost grass" and "dream orchid". At the same time, some people call it the flower of the underworld and call it saprophytic flower. in fact, crystal orchid has neither the magic of returning to heaven, nor will it kill people, but it is a folk medicine with a light taste of grass that can cure body deficiency and cough for a long time.