I have a passion to grow the seeds (and other motives).

I have not a fact to go on, but have a notion (no, I have a firm conviction!) that they are parasitic in early youth on cryptogams! (359/6.

In an article on British Epiphytal Orchids ("Gard.

Chron." 1884, page 144) Malaxis paludosa is described by F.W.Burbidge as being a true epiphyte on the stems of Sphagnum.

Stahl states that the difficulty of cultivating orchids largely depends on their dependence on a mycorhizal fungus,--though he does not apply his view to germination.