Mother Happy 80th Birthday Phalaenopsis Orchid Card

Happy Birthday, Mother, You're always there when we need encouragement, advice and comfort. You always know when there's cause for applause, too! We're so happy and blessed to celebrate your eightieth birthday. Love from your grateful family. The Orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. It is currently believed to be the largest family of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species, found in 880 genera, according to Wikipedia. The number of orchid species equals more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. It also encompasses about 6–11% of all seed plants. The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species).