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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: Maggi Young on June 10, 2014, 03:11:18 PM
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Not to be missed : The Orchid Fair at The Botanics in Edinburgh 27 June-20 July.
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Location: John Hope Gateway @ Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland
Price: Free
From the website of the Taiwan Pavilion of the Edinburgh Summer Festivals -
"The orchid has always had a unique place in ethnic Chinese culture. In addition to its wide diversity of intriguing shapes and fascinating color combinations, the flower has been extolled in the works of Chinese literati as a symbol of the moral excellence of a man or the beauty of a woman, and some types of orchids have long been used in Chinese herbal medicine.
For many centuries, however, growing orchids was an activity limited to a small group of dedicated hobbyists. That situation persisted in Taiwan until around two decades ago, when the joint efforts of the government, researchers and farmers turned the old hobby into a big business. Taiwan is now the world's largest orchid exporter. In the past two years, Phalaenopsis has a breakthrough in sales of 8 million strains, the highest in Taiwan flower exports and ranked the first among other seedling exports worldwide. Although orchid planting covers only 4% of the overall Taiwan landscape, the sales covers 23 percent of the floral industry. In the international orchid market, Taiwan seizes 50 plus percent of Phalaenopsis seed sources and 40% of the core production technology. These contribute to the idea of ‘roots in Taiwan, blossoms worldwide’. "
© 2014 by Edinburgh Summer Festivals: Taiwan Pavilion
http://edifesttwpavilion.wix.com/taiwanpavilion2014# (http://edifesttwpavilion.wix.com/taiwanpavilion2014#)!about/c10fk
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4% of the landscape is a lot of orchids! :o :o
I wonder what percentage of the Dutch landscape is given over to tulips?
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4% of the landscape is a lot of orchids! :o :o
I wonder what percentage of the Dutch landscape is given over to tulips?
That's a ridiculous mistake, considering only 25% of Taiwan's land is suitable for farming.
I think that was supposed to be 4% of the land used for growing flowers.
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I wonder what percentage of the Dutch landscape is given over to tulips?
According to the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics, approximately 12,000 hectares is down to Tulip production ( which is a little over half of the total area down to bulbs). This represents about 0.29% of the total land area of The Netherlands
Paul
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This represents about 0.29% of the total land area of The Netherlands
Now that's a more reasonable statistic. Still it's a pleasant thought to imagine 4% of the land area of any country devoted to orchid production. :D
Perhaps it would reduce international conflicts...... on second thoughts, there would probably be nuclear stand-offs over the virtues of Cypripedium versus Plieone. :-\
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Not that it matters much for me, but according to BKD (see Link) the realistic number of tulips in HA is appr. 10350 ha
http://www.bkd.eu/bkd (http://www.bkd.eu/bkd)
BKD gives (as far as I know) the best inside information about bulb production in the Netherlands.