Many people associate the delicate orchid with tropical rainforests in exotic locales. Not SUNY Cortland botanist Michael Hough. Recently, he discovered a new species of orchid in the wetlands ...

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 ...

If you've found yourself falling in love with the delicate beauty of orchids, you're in luck: There are a lot of different plants to choose from! There are orchids native to every continent except ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American More than 200 years ago, the Scottish ...

Three new orchid species from the genus Pleurothallis have been discovered in the cloud forests of Costa Rica and western Panama, each utilizing an unusual method of asexual reproduction known as ...

When most people think of orchids, the first image that comes to mind may be those bright pink or purple flowers you see in a grocery store that tend to die as soon as you get them home. The second ...

Recent research, published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, used the database to reveal that orchids show remarkable diversity of highly specialized pollination strategies that differ ...

Environmental groups have filed a lawsuit because they want the federal government to list a rare orchid, found mainly in Florida, as an endangered species. Ghost orchids grow in just a few places in ...

Three new orchid species from the evergreen montane forests and shrublands of the Ecuadoran Andes have been described by scientists. Two of the new orchids have been preliminarily assessed as ...

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