The symptoms of a scratched cornea include eye watering, pain and redness in the eye, spasms in the eyelid, sensitivity to light, blurry vision or the feeling that there is something in your eye. Fortunately, there a number of steps you can take to help your scratched cornea heal. scratched cornea, or a corneal abrasion, can have a number of causes, including wearing contacts for an extended length of time or wearing cracked or chipped contact lenses, getting hit/poked in your eye, having a foreign object (such as an eyelash or sand) trapped in your eye or getting fluid in your eye.
Orchid Blooms: How long do they last? This monthâs question is one that we get asked quite often. It is hard to say what an orchid will do in every home since bloom time will always depend on the conditions in which you keep your orchid. Phalaenopsis Orchid spikes- with their bloomsâ sepals and petals resembling a butterfly or moth in flightâwill typically last from 6 to 12 weeks, sometimes even longer.
Orchids can be notoriously picky plants â a fact which makes conserving the endangered ones a difficult job for ecologists. In a paper published this month in the journal Molecular Ecology, SERC ecologists revealed that an orchidâs survival hinges on two factors: a forestâs age and its fungi. Downy rattlesnake orchid.ll this implies that to save endangered orchids, itâs not a simple matter of planting new forests to replace the ones that were destroyed. If the forests arenât old enough or donât have enough of the right fungi, lost orchids may take decades to return, if they return at all.