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Hideka Kobayashi
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The last one. Well, you can buy Polyrrhiza lindenii from Oak Hill cheap 
(Footage of Brandon and Braver; orchids)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Richard Brandon is a former New York actor who retired to Florida nine years ago, intending to fish, but one orchid led to another.
Mr. BRANDON: This is dendrobium roi takunaga.
BRAVER: Oh, just that, huh?
Mr. BRANDON: That's it.
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Soon he was creating a whole orchid habitat on his property.
Mr. BRANDON: Initially, I wire them onto the trees to hold them in place, and then nature takes its course, because this is how they grow naturally.
BRAVER: Is there any particular orchid that you really want to acquire that you haven't been able to get yet?
Mr. BRANDON: Mm, the ghost orchid.
(Footage of ghost orchid; the book, "The Orchid Thief")
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Ah, yes, the rare and beautiful ghost orchid, an endangered species made famous by Susan Orlean's book, "The Orchid Thief."
(Excerpt from "Adaptation")
BRAVER: (Voiceover) It was turned into the film "Adaptation." Chris Cooper played John Laroche, who stole ghost orchids from the Fakahatchee Swamp...
(Excerpt from "Adaptation")
BRAVER: (Voiceover) ...hoping to be the first to reproduce them in a nursery.
(Footage of Braver and group wading through swamp)
Mr. OWEN: If he wanted to work with us, we could have allowed him to take a seed pod.
(Footage of replanted orchid; Braver and group wading through swamp)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) When Laroche was arrested, biologist Mike Owen was called in to put the stolen plants, including this one, back in the swamp.
Is it thriving? Is it going to make it?
Mr. OWEN: Well, it has survived these now nine years, but it's not thriving.
BRAVER: (Voiceover) In fact, you can barely see this leafless plant that clamps its roots on a tree and lives off air and light. No one knows exactly why a ghost orchid can thrive in one particular spot and not in another, which is why they are so hard to find.
Mr. OWEN: Here--this is a ghost orchid.
BRAVER: (Voiceover) The day we spent in the swamp, there wasn't a ghost orchid blossom in sight. They only bloom once a year.
Mr. BUTCHER: One year, there was only three that bloomed. I mean, that's not very many plants to--to keep a species going.
(Footage of Butcher; photograph of ghost orchid)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) But, luckily, awhile back, Clyde Butcher captured one on film, so that all of us can see that most rare, precious and mysterious bloom, the ghost orchid, and we can indulge ourselves in a bit of orchid mania.
(Footage of newspaper article)
OSGOOD: (Voiceover) Next, a controversy in black and white.
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Hideka Kobayashi
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Continued:
(Footage from RF Orchids)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) The Chinese were the first to cultivate orchids, but Victorian England was besotted with them, sending explorers throughout the world to bring back exotic varieties long before strict conservation laws made it illegal to take orchids growing in the wild from many countries. There are at least 25,000 known orchid species, many with sophisticated pollination systems.
Mr. FUCHS: It's a catacina orchid, and this has the most incredible mechanism for reproduction I think you'll ever see. The insect--this he--holds nectar in here. The insect flies in. Put your finger there and and touch--touch that little spur sticking down.
BRAVER: Oh, there.
Mr. FUCHS: You--you've been pollinated.
BRAVER: Touched by an orchid.
Mr. FUCHS: I know.
(Footage from RF Orchids)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Over the years, growers learned to cross-breed orchids, creating hardy hybrids that can be reproduced cheaply. It's led to orchid democratization.
Mr. FUCHS: Orchids now--through cloning and mass production of orchids, everybody can have an orchid.
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Instead of hundreds of dollars, you can buy one for as little as $20; though some rare specimens can range up to $10,000.
(Footage of Braver and Richard Brandon; orchids)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) But then, true collectors seem to know no bounds.
Do you ha--have any idea how much money you've spent buying orchids?
Mr. RICHARD BRANDON (Orchid Collector): I don't even want to go there.
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Hideka Kobayashi
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Watch out for typos!  WTH is "dicum biocarndum caliaskineri"? My guess is: Diacrium bicornutum(Caularthron bicolor) x Cattleya skinneri.
CBS News Transcripts
SHOW: Sunday Morning (9:00 AM ET) - CBS
May 25, 2003 Sunday
TYPE: Profile
LENGTH: 1262 words
HEADLINE: Flowering fad; orchids rapidly becoming the latest craze
ANCHORS: CHARLES OSGOOD
REPORTERS: RITA BRAVER
BODY:
FLOWERING FAD
CHARLES OSGOOD, host:
From your local florist to a recent motion picture to our very own SUNDAY MORNING set, the Flowering Fad of the moment is the orchid. We wondered what was behind this flower's growing popularity, so we sent our Rita Braver out to investigate.
(Footage of people wading through swamp)
RITA BRAVER reporting:
(Voiceover) So what would get four people...
Whoops. Right where I am, there's something...
(Voiceover) ..including one fairly squeamish reporter...
Mr. MIKE OWEN (Park Biologist): That's a gator bellowing.
BRAVER: Right.
Mr. OWEN: It's not far. Couple hundred feet.
BRAVER: (Voiceover) ...to wade far into Florida's Fakahatchee Swamp?
Mr. OWEN: And it's even blooming.
BRAVER: (Voiceover) It would have to be orchids.
Mr. OWEN: This is the Florida clamshell orchid. You can see, beautiful, like a little bonnet.
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Park biologist Mike Owen.
Mr. OWEN: Right. This one's multicolored, little legs down here like an octopus or a space ship taking off or whatever.
BRAVER: Is this the one that you have tracked and you've known this was here?
Mr. OWEN: Yes, I've been watching this for over eight years.
Mr. CLYDE BUTCHER (Photographer): There it is. This is the first time I've photographed this one.
(Footage of Clyde and Niki Butcher; photograph of orchid)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Famed nature photographer Clyde Butcher and his wife Niki have hauled 50 pounds of camera gear into the swamp, just to make this shot. And if these folks seem willing to journey to the ends of the Earth in search of the rarest, most exotic orchids, well, they're not alone.
(Footage of orchid show)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Americans have come down with orchid fever. Orchids have become an international multibillion-dollar-a-year industry, more than 12 million sold in the US alone.
(Footage of orchids)
Ms. MARILYN MIRRO (Orchid Grower): (Voiceover) You would lie, steal, whatever to bring an orchid in the house. It overpowers you. People come in very sane into an orchid show, and they go insane.
Say, 'Who cares? Who cares about the mortgage payment? Who cares about the doctor bill?' It's true. I've seen it.
(Footage of Mirro; orchid show)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Marilyn Mirro's passion paid off this year. The orchid she nurtured for eight years, from a $6 seedling, a variety called Julia Sorenson, was named grand champion of this year's Miami International Orchid Show.
Ms. MIRRO: I never in a million years did I ever think I'd get to this point, ever, ever.
Mr. ROBERT FUCHS (Orchid Breeder): So it's phenomenal to see one of your youngsters that you developed, a--and to--to reach that level in the orchid world is--is--is phenomenal.
(Footage from orchids)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) Robert Fuchs crossbred the plant that produced that prize-winning flower. He's owner of RF Orchids in Homestead, Florida.
(Footage of orchid; photograph of Robert Fuchs' father)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) So orchids run in the family?
Mr. FUCHS: (Voiceover) Orchids run in the family. Three generations of orchid growers, yeah.
This belonged to my grandfather. It's a survivor of Hurricane Andrew. It's a dicum biocarndum caliaskineri, which is a very common orchid...
(Footage from RF Orchids)
BRAVER: (Voiceover) It may be common to him, but for the rest of us, here's a little history.
OK. Look at this.
Mr. FUCHS: I know. Look at this.
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