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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anyone Can Grow Orchids.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis, or cone scale?
(a) Frond.
(b) Bract.
(c) Lamina.
(d) Sheath.

2. What publication about orchids did Frederick Sander publish?
(a) The Orchid Diaries.
(b) Reichenbachia.
(c) Classifications of Orchids.
(d) Orchidarenisus.

3. Alligators have remained largely unchanged for how many years?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 2 million.
(c) 2 billion.
(d) 200 million.

4. When does the Ghost Orchid blossom?
(a) Between May and September.
(b) Between May and August.
(c) Between December and April.
(d) Between June and August.

5. What refers to any of a class of angiosperm plants having a single cotyledon in the seed?
(a) Eudicot.
(b) Magnoliid.
(c) Monocot.
(d) Austrobaileyale.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many species are in the Pleurothallis genus of orchids?

2. Pollination of the Ghost Orchid is done by what?

3. How many species are in the Dendrobium genus of orchids?

4. What is the binomial name of the Ghost Orchid?

5. Orchids from seeds take a long time because many of the plants rarely form what?

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