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Jason Downing, a graduate researcher with Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, right, explains how to attach a cowhorn orchid to a tree to students at the Jose Marti MAST 6-12 Academy, Friday, May 15, 2015, in Hialeah, Fla. The school has an orchid micropropagation lab and is planting the orchids on the school property as part of Fairchild's Million Orchid Project. The project is part of an effort to revive five Florida orchid populations that were nearly wiped out by over zealous collectors. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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