I have been told by people with clean desktops that the secret is to never finish the day with anything left on it… Here is my desktop, after I tidied it up…
The pretty yellow flower is a wild orchid that grows in the poplar forests of Canada. It forms a symbiotic relationship with fungi to obtain nutrients from decaying forest litter. In spite of producing many thousands of spores, it reproduces slowly, perhaps taking 25 years for a generation. They pop up and flower before the poplar put out leaves so that they take advantage of the sunshine. Most orchids are tropical but these survive winter air temperatures of -40C by being in contact with earth at near 0C. Flies are the pollinators and the foul smell produced is used to attract flies. The species is Cypripedium parviflorum.
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