Posted on 05/23/2018 6:09:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Add this to the ongoing list of fun facts about the Trump family: Melania Trump has an orchid named after her. The flower is a hybrid orchid known as Rhyncholaeliocattleya Melania Trump, or "Rlc Melania Trump," and it even won an award this weekend.
When you know the context, the fact that this flower exists isn't so bizarre. It was created by Chadwick & Son Orchids Inc., a company that breeds orchids and has a longstanding tradition of naming flowers after the spouses of the two leading presidential candidates during election years. The company gave both Melania Trump and Bill Clinton that honor in 2016. Now Trump's is on public display while Clinton's sits in a private greenhouse.
"Every candidate who didn't make it ... I've got their spouse's flower," company president Arthur Chadwick told Bloomberg. "The Ann Romney is a real stunner, too. My dad is heartbroken that it's never going anywhere."
Chadwick has bred orchids for the four first ladies he's personally met — Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama — and also a range of others. Though his company was only founded in 1989, orchid breeders have been naming flowers after first ladies since 1929 (the first to do so was Joseph Manda Orchid Co., for Lou Henry Hoover). Recently, Chadwick has worked to fill in historical gaps by developing orchids for Edith Wilson, Lady Bird Johnson, and Eleanor Roosevelt.....
(Excerpt) Read more at bustle.com ...
I don’t think CATTLE should be contained in a young girls given name.
Orchids are totally dependent on fungi. A fascinating article with beautiful pictures. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-conservation-orchids-no-simple-matter-180968270/#aiX1CMXxzKSYy3lQ.99
Rhyncholaeliocattleya
How could she possibly object?
This thread is worthless without a picture. Of both.
I collect orchids and that one is beautiful. Great color.
More winning!
I have 5 orchids and every one is in bloom right now. I can always use another.
Gorgeous! Both of them.
This totally beats that painting of Moochelle (with orangutan length arms) that got oohs and ahhs.
Beautiful orchid and lovely person.
Thank you. The article has a phalaenopsis picture with the first lady.
“The article has a phalaenopsis picture with the first lady.”
That one was a Getty image, and I do not think we are allowed to post them.
It’s not the Melania Trump orchid either.
When is the democrat orchid protest?
Fun Fact #7351
The state of Nevada has more wild species of orchid than every other state
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