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It’s time for the New York Botanical Garden’s seventh annual orchid fest.

Forget you’re in the Bronx. The air’s warm and humid in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, so shed your winter coat and get transported to the Brazilian tropics. All that’s missing is a caipirinha.

This year’s stylish show, “Brazilian Modern,” gives visitors a taste of Brazilian design as well as the astonishing diversity and geographic range of this most adaptable flower–a favorite research subject of Charles Darwin. There are more than 30,000 species of orchids around the world, found on every continent except Antarctica. Read more..

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Botanical Garden Associate VP Francisca Coelho Has Deep Bronx Roots

Francisca Coelho, associate vice president for glasshouses and exhibitions, New York Botanical Garden.

Francisca Coelho grew up in Trinidad with a tropical rain forest just beyond the garden where her parents tended mango and avocado trees.

When she arrived in the Bronx almost 30 years ago to study horticulture at The New York Botanical Garden, she discovered those lush surroundings of her youth had given her a head start.

“I can picture plants and name them. I can see all the characteristics,” she said. “It was very fascinating for me to see the plants I grew up with outside growing in this big glass building.”

After graduation, Coelho was hired to record and track all of the garden’s new plants. Since then, her roots at the garden have grown steadily deeper. Today, she is the associate vice president for glasshouses and exhibitions.

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