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Photographers and Scientists Partner to Solve the Riddle of the Ghost Orchid

Photographers and Scientists Partner to Solve the Riddle of the Ghost Orchid

A moth hovers near white flowers against a black background. Large white text reads “CHASING GHOSTS.”.

A new documentary follows photographers and scientists deep into Florida’s most remote swamps in search of answers to one of botany’s most enduring questions: what pollinates the elusive ghost orchid. Long considered one of North America’s rarest and least understood flowers, the species has resisted decades of study, with its reproduction largely undocumented in the wild.

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