In nature how do these orchid seeds get distributed and how then are they able to grow?

In nature some very remarkable circumstances must be present for an orchid seed to actually germinate in the world of nature.

Number one it will be lofted high into the air many times into the stratosphere by wind currents because the seeds are virtually weightless.

They may circulate the earth in the upper stratosphere wind belts for unknown periods of time where they are frozen and eventually they may come down as a nucleus of a droplet of water in a rainstorm somewhere.

For an Orchid seed to sprout, to germinate in nature, and on a place that is not baked by the sun but has proper moisture at all times, temperatures neither to hot nor to cold and where certainly some member of the Rhizocotonia fungi group, which is the largest group of fungi in the world, is present so that the mycellium from the fungi may invade the orchid seed and provide it with the sugars and starches it needs to germinate.

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