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27: "In his ergo vite tempestatibus, ut ad rein redeam, nullo portu anchoram longum in tempus iaciens, quot veros amicos nescio, quorum et iudicium anceps et penuria ingens est, notos autem innumerabiles quaesivi.
Marked by their characteristic three petals and single fertile stamen, orchids vary in color, from a criminally purple Laelia anceps to a phalaenopsis pink enough to spook a flamingo, to an immaculate silky white cymbidium.
The blossoms are of every imaginable color and have long, pedigreed names - Laelia anceps Displinada Higgins or the Cymbidium suavissimum Keith Andrew - that make them sound more like members of some lost European aristocracy than like flowers.
 
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