The mysterious orchid aerial roots Hello!! My name is Marianna and this is my first English entry here... and I don't really know what to write ^^' Therefore, I will write about a little doubt on regard to orchids -- because who ever doesn't love orchids? Well, I must confess that I know very little about flowers and how to grow them. I think I like them: they have beautiful colours (expecially when they are yellow), and generally have a nice scent. But when it comes to plant and cultivate them, the flowers and I look at each others with sort of mutual diffidence. They feel that I have no idea about what their needs may be, apart from generically sun, soil and water, and I can't really interpret their signals. A couple of years ago, however, I was given a beautiful orchid. This endearing and stubborn creature has survived up to now, and it seems almost healty, but obstinately refuses to make flowers. Each year it puts on new leaves and grows tendrils which I always hope to be a new branch, but which, in the end, turn out to be aerial roots. This year my dear plant was growing something that seemed a branch more that any other thing... but that, now I see, is just another root. I have to face the truth: when they are small, I really can't tell orchid roots and branches apart ^^'