Sometimes newfound flower species are lurking where scientists least expect to see them — in parks, gardens and even in planters on balconies. That's where researchers in Japan recently identified a ...

Two centuries after orchids were first documented in South Australia, photographers are still discovering new plants.

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New discoveries have highlighted the Philippines' rich biodiversity, including a newly identified pitcher plant species in ...

New Delhi: India's orchids are under pressure from illicit harvesting and exploitation for illegal trade. Of the vast diversity of 1,256 orchid species recorded in India, 307 are endemic to the ...

Ming-Lun Chou, Ming-Che Shih, Ming-Tsair Chan, Shih-Yi Liao, Chen-Tran Hsu, Yao-Ting Haung, Jeremy J. W. Chen, Der-Chih Liao, Fu-Hui Wu, Choun-Sea Lin https://www ...

SERNANP, Peru’s national parks service, announced that a new species of orchid was discovered on Bella Durmiente mountain, a prominent natural feature of Tingo Maria National Park in the Huánuco ...

Orchids are often thought of as beautiful, delicate and vibrant – but a newly identified plant might just change your mind. The “Gastrodia agnicellus” – labeled the “ugliest orchid in the world” – is ...

At plant markets in Thailand, exquisite orchids are for sale. Those orchids are unlike the ones you can buy at many U.S. shops; many of them are rare species that were collected from the wild. Selling ...

Selbyana, Vol. 26, No. 1/2, Proceedings of the Second International Orchid Conservation Congress (2005), pp. 196-216 (21 pages) TWO cypripedioid orchid genera, Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium, are ...