Seeding a Future Ark

David Jardine *
*) Southeast Asia-based writer.

EARLIER this year the discovery of a species of orchid previously unknown to science was reported from the eastern Indonesian island of Flores. Indonesia is home to a startling array of orchids, in keeping with its massive and complex biodiversity.

Some 25,000 species of orchid are known around the world, in what the United Kingdom’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew outside London describes a

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