A large genus of tropical orchids with small pseudobulbs and typically small, unusual flowers.
From Greek 'bulbos' (bulb) and 'phyllon' (leaf), describing how these orchids' leaves emerge from bulb-like structures called pseudobulbs.
Bulbophyllum is the largest orchid genus with over 2,000 species, and many have the creepiest flowers in the plant world—some smell like rotting flesh to attract flies as pollinators, making them nature's masters of deception.
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