Orchid Seeds In Deep Freeze

Many of the orchids of the future, mere seeds today, are in a deep slumber inside glass vials in sub-zero temperature cared for by botanists with a group that has an acronym that sounds like a secret spy group: the OSSSU, or Orchid Seed Stores for Sustainable Use.

Hugh Pritchard, a British scientist with the Millennium Seed Bank Project - an international plant conservation project co-ordinated by Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - said that the OSSSU hoped to build a network of seed banks around the world to preserve orchid seeds. Read the full report here.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald.