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As the national flower of Colombia, orchids are a source of pride for the country. Colombia has 1,500 species of them which is more than any other place on Earth. The reason it's so hyper-diverse is due largely to the montane areas like the Andean Cordillera. Such chain of mountains is the home of a diverse set of environments, including lowland dry forests, wet forests, and cloud forests and Paramos (grassland-like environments). Most of the Colombian orchid species diversity are epiphytes (plants that live on the bark of other trees and that depend on the air moist and debris accumulated at branch and boles of trees). In fact, the cloud forests of the Nariño department in western Colombia hold the record for the place with the highest number of epiphyte diversity in the world. The Colombian national flower is the orchid Cattleya trianae, or the "Christmas orchid". It was picked as our national flower because the combination of blue, yellow and red colours in the flowers are reminiscent of the Colombian flag and because it was named after the prominent Colombian botanist Jose Jeronimo Triana. The Christmas orchid is currently critically endangered because of deforestation and selective extraction for commercial exploitation. Source of pride for the country

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