Himantoglossum Hircinum (2019) Pittura da Cinzia Marotta

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This spring it rained for three months. A fact quite unusual for my country, and of course climate change has to do with it. The first clear day I went for a walk in the woods. As I advanced, a silvery mist parted, revealing these orchids, soaring and beautiful as fairies.

In orchids, male and female reproductive organs are merged into a single structure called the gynostemium. I decided, therefore, to allude to the theme of hermaphroditism, populating them with hermaphrodite terrestrial molluscs and the stick insect, Clonopsis gallica, of which no male has ever been observed. Females reproduce alone through parthenogenesis.

Orchids are peculiar plants. And beautiful. People often pick them up without thinking that a single plant can take up to three or four years to bloom, and the seeds germinate only on ground where a specific fungus proliferates.
In many European countries they are near-threatened.

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