Record no.1582026-07-12 07:30 JST

June 22, 2026 — All 75 households were each assigned an orchid.

A village in Sikkim has finished attaching native orchids to the trees of all 75 of its households.

🇮🇳 Sirisay-Tampong, Namchi District, Sikkim, India

In the village of Sirisay-Tampong, in the Namchi district of southern Sikkim, India, an effort to attach native orchids to the trees on the grounds of all 75 households has been completed. Volunteers went house to house, chose trees suited to host the plants, and fixed two or three species at each spot according to their ecology. In all, 630 seedlings across 29 species in 11 genera were distributed. The effort began in 2021, expanded in 2024, and reached every household in 2026. The survival rate of the earlier plantings was about 75 percent. Even before it began, roughly 45 percent of households were already growing orchids. At its center was the plant researcher Pramod Rai. Sikkim has 532 recorded orchid species. The regional outlet EastMojo reported it on June 22.

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“All 75 households were each assigned an orchid.” — eastmojo.com — https://thunderhead.news/en/record/all-75-households-were-each-assigned-an-orchid.html
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