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Ophrys fusca (Brown Bee Orchid)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ophrys fusca, commonly known as the sombre bee-orchid or the dark bee-orchid, is a species of orchid native to the Mediterranean from southwestern Europe and northern Africa to western Asia.
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Infraspecies

Ophrys fusca blitopertha
Ophrys fusca cinereophila
Ophrys fusca durieui
Ophrys fusca funerea
Ophrys fusca fusca
Ophrys fusca iricolor (Attributes)
Ophrys fusca pallida

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [1]  The flowers resemble a female insect and also emit a scent similar to female pheremones.
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  16 inches (0.4 m)
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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0