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There's a good array of orchids, including this one, in the boreal forest where I worked for a decade.
Part of field work is you eventually become crusty and crass all get out, just to pass the time.
I started calling this one 'engorged flowering ballsack' to the amusement of the botanist teams I worked with.
I started calling this one 'engorged flowering ballsack'
Wow. You're not wrong!
No, they are not.
