Heidi Zimmer works for the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, a joint venture between Parks Australia's Australian National Botanic Gardens and the National Research Collections ...

Normally, when an insect lands on a flower, there’s a fair exchange of goods and services. The bug gets a slurp of delicious, nutritious nectar, and the plant gets the pollen that the bug was carrying ...

Rhizanthella gardneri is a cute, quirky and critically endangered orchid that lives all its life underground. It even blooms underground, making it virtually unique amongst plants. Last year, using ...

Australia is experiencing an unseasonably warm winter and experts are noticing some odd side effects in Australian flora. 'These warming temperatures are changing the way that plants would normally ...

Australia has approved moth orchid imports from Taiwan after the nation met quarantine requirements, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency said on Friday. Inspections in the six months from ...

The world's most mysterious and elusive orchid lives underground in Australia. Scientists are trying to rescue this botanic marvel from going completely extinct. As a child, Kingsley Dixon's favourite ...

Marc Freestone receives funding from Hermon Slade Foundation, Australian Government National Environmental Science Programme – Threatened Species Recovery Hub, Victorian Government. Sign up to Beating ...

Orchid hunting conjures images from the 1800s—explorers in mud-spattered khaki, traipsing through impenetrable jungle, overloaded with equipment: jars, bottles, bags and boxes, a gun (to shoot down ...