The 𝙇𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙞 is an extremely rare orchid, the only one of its genus to be present in Europe. To grow, in fact, it needs a specific habitat (swamp with neutral or alkaline pH) which over time is rapidly disappearing, destroyed by massive anthropogenic reclamation interventions.
At the Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences and the Germplasm Bank of the University of Tuscia, very encouraging results are being obtained from the in vitro cultivation of seeds collected in Trentino.
Thanks to the use of modified Malmgren and coconut milk, which stimulates germination, we can appreciate the images of a first phase of development from seeds to protocorms and the subsequent phase of the more developed protocorms, with the first leaf buds and rhizoids.
