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Botanical Art
The beauty and diversity of orchids has fascinated people for many hundreds of years. 5 centuries before Christ, Confucius compared the pleasure of seeing good friends to entering a room full of "lan" or fragrant orchids. The Chinese called these flowers "lan", the name they came to be known by in the western world was given (according to legend) by Theophrastus, a student of Plato. He noted the round paired bulbs of one common European orchid and gave it the name orchis from the Greek word for testicle. Later, this name was applied not only to one genus, Orchis, but also to the entire family (even though the majority of orchids do not have this kind of root). Commonly this family is called the orchid family: scientifically, the family is called Orchidaceae.
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This collection contains 26 optomised border backgrounds which can be used as web page
backgrounds and desktop wallpaper. Some will print out really nicely as writing paper or
wrapping paper too, just remember to set your printer to print 'best quality' and use good
quality paper to print them.
delivered by Email. Zip size 2mb Graphics will be sent by email
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