Darwin's Orchids | Odd Salon ODDMENTS 2018 (Introduction) 1/8
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2018-12-19

Charles Darwin had a love/hate relationship with orchids. One day, while working on a book on orchids, he wrote that he hated everyone and everything... and orchids most of all. Bad days and bouts of orchid hatred aside, he persisted, and his book on orchids and the pollinators that coexist with them was published in 1862. In his study of these exotic orchids, he hypothesized about an as-yet undiscovered, gigantic imaginary moth that might be a pollinator to a particularly long-necked Madagascar orchid. Nearly a century later he would be proved right. 

Salon Curator Annetta Black ~ Darwin's Orchids

Odd Salon ODDMENTS 2018: Our annual celebration of strange stories, curious happenings, odd ends, and unclassified wonders.

Recorded live 12/11/2018 at Public Works, San Francisco, CA

Curated by Annetta Black
Edit, Camera, Post production: John Adams
Sound:  Steen

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