Orchids have fascinating sex lives.
In the world of flowers, boy meets girl through pollination, and orchids have adapted some of the most intriguing pollination strategies ever devised. Additional support has been provided by the American Orchid Society. Of course, birds and bees aren't the only ones to be seduced by orchids. Human beings also seem to find them irresistible, even addictive. When an orchid craze swept England in the nineteenth century, wealthy collectors hired orchid hunters to scour the tropics for rare species.