1. What type of orchid produces a series of adjacent shoots which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing, to be then replaced?
(a) Autopodial.
(b) Tripodial.
(c) Monopodial.
(d) Sympodial.

2. In what neighborhood of Miami does Lee Moore live?
(a) Allapattah.
(b) Flagami.
(c) Kendall.
(d) Edgewater.

3. What company had begun logging the Fakahatchee Strand for cypress trees in the 1950s?
(a) Steven's Timber Company.
(b) John Smith Swamp Logging.
(c) The Lee Tidewater Cypress Company.
(d) Jones Forestry Inc.

4. What is the name of Lee Moore's wife?
(a) Candy.
(b) Cindy.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Chady.

5. What refers to a trait that is shared by two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor, whose ancestor in turn does not possess the trait?
(a) Synapomorphy.
(b) Symbiosis.
(c) Morphology.
(d) Biomorph.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of orchid has a stem which grows from a single bud in which leaves are added from the apex each year, and the stem grows longer accordingly?

2. How many genera are there in the orchid family?

3. Who owned the Gulf American Corporation?

4. Who named the Cattleya Orchid?

5. In Orchid Fever, Susan writes that the international trade in orchids is more than how much per year?

(see the answer key)

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