With the evolution of this planet, how long have orchids been around?

It is very hard to say how long orchids have been around.

Certainly the scientists, the botanists, believe that orchids appeared on this face of the earth as one of the latest to develop flowering plants.

They are a very complex group of flowering plants, and they have many special characteristics to them and also to a group of plants there mutation rate is quite high, which accounts for the enormous numbers of orchids-as varieties of them on the face of the earth.

Orchids were part of this planet before human beings were on foot, the whole group of flowering plants were present before there were human beings present on this earth.

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