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Posted: Thu Oct 29th, 2020 00:13

Joined:	Mon Apr 2nd, 2012
Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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Amazing, the variety and quality is astounding, thank you for sharing with us. These are tiny Orchids, as you note, finding them must be a challenge. I assume habitat will be a clue but they still need finding at the right time in order to see them at all. I have read that the tubers are minute, no more than 3 to 4mm in length, that is amazing.

I find the genus Coybas naming very interesting, apparently the genus was named by Richard Salisbury for a male Greek dancer, shown in illustrations wearing a crested helmet, who worshipped the goddess Cybele. Korybas was a priest of Cybele, "whose religious rites were accompanied by frenzied music and dancing".

As you may have gathered, I am very interested in commemorative plant names and their origin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Anthony_Salisbury

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