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Cleveland Botanical Garden’s ‘Orchids: Love in Bloom’ show opens on Valentine’s Day (photos)
Not all orchids are aromatic, but this display has scents from mild cat urine, which attracts beetles, to chocolate and coconut for moths and other insects. Orchids are everywhere throughout the ...
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The Delicious, Ancient History of Chocolate and Vanilla
Vanilla beans begin as the seedpods of a tropical orchid (left); Chocolate is made from the seeds hidden inside the fruit of the cacao tree (right). Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images Of all the ...