Rhizanthella is an extraordinary orchid that lives its entire life underground, a fact which highlights its unique and ...

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 ...

Pankaj Kumar has spent 25 years trekking through Asia's deepest forests looking for rare orchids and has discovered 38 ...

Known to scientists as Dracula, the so-called “monkey-face orchids” have become online celebrities. A new global ...

The orchid family (Orchidaceae) is oldest and largest flowering plant family on earth with about 28,000 species! They come in every color, size, and shape imaginable and are typically not more ...

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 ...

Orchids have a difficult reputation, but as long as you maintain air flow and allow the roots to breathe, your indoor orchids ...

One of the world's newest orchid species is also its most delicate, with tiny white flowers smaller than a dime. Yet the flower finds its home amid boulders near the banks of rushing streams in Cuba's ...

For millennia, the Andes hid a spectacular secret, but in May a Virginia nursery owner, Michael Kovach, stumbled across the treasure, an orchid with an enormous magenta and purple blossom that ...

This finding exposed a hidden carbon transfer. The fungi fed on deadwood, absorbed its carbon, and passed it to orchids. In ...