*We were alerted to this story by Olfiction’s Reading and Smelling List, and found it in The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. Collecting orchids is not for the faint-hearted! We at Aromatica Poetica appreciate such strange obsessions, and hope you do too!* The Flowering of the Strange Orchid The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shriveled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust …