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Endangered Orchid on the Edge. More than 200 species of orchids blossom in North America. Their names are as mesmerizing as their flowers: Dragonâs mouth. Threebirds orchid.Yellow ladyâs slipper. But unlike their showy cousins in the tropics, the orchids of the temperate zone often flower unseen.More than half are endangered or threatened somewhere in their native range.o germinate and grow, an orchid seed needs to land on moist soil with just the right fungus nearby. Its relationship with the fungus enables the orchid to grow into a microscopic protocorm, and later grow into a seedling. Gradually the fungi start to penetrate its cells and form coils of hyphae called pelotons.
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.