Meet Goa's Mr Orchid... and learn more about these plants with complex flowers...
Channel: Frederick Noronha
Date: 10/03/2024

Altaf Shaik, of Golden Leaf Agrotech, has started greenhouses in Velus where he grows cut flowers as well as the decorative leaves in 12 acres, half of which are occupied by orchids. (Source: The Goan, see https://www.thegoan.net/floriculture-flourishes-in-goa/37109.html#google_vignette ) Here, he talks about orchids in Goa. Orchids are plants with complex flowers that are often showy or bizarrely shaped, having a large specialised lip (labellum) and frequently a spur. Orchids occur worldwide, especially as epiphytes (plants that use other plants or objects for support, but not for nutrients or water) in tropical forests, and are valuable hothouse plants.