Mysuru is not only famous for its festivals and palaces but also for its rare animals and plants From the slow moving Indian ...

The Desert Botanical Garden is trying to keep a rare orchid native to Arizona from extinction. After years of careful ...

An Illinois College team continues to further orchid conservation on a global scale, with a return visit — and gold-medal win ...

Orchids have been seen in bloom at Marlow's Homefield Wood and will be flowering through the end of May into early June.

ITANAGAR— Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Lt. General KT Parnaik (Retd.), today presented the prestigious ‘Land of the Rising ...

Certainly, that is how plant hunters have been described in recent works, including a 2012 children’s book, The Plant Hunters ...

A rare example of the Preah Trahoeng giant orchid, the world’s tallest orchid, is blooming for the third time within the Kingdom. It has produced five flower stalks – an unprecedented event – at the ...

These rare, charming orchids were long thought to be pollinated by a single insect: the giant sphinx moth. This massive creature sounds like a miniature jet as it zooms through the swamp with a ...

Like a rare orchid, I appreciate some climate-controlling during the colder months. When I talked to greenhouse manager Terry Barry, I realized that I wasn’t alone in seeking warmth in the Life ...

Travers said the research is important in terms of biodiversity, of which rare species are an integral component for their contributions to their ecosystem. While orchids are found all over the ...

Spider orchids do not always have multiple flowers on the same plant, but if they’re happy and healthy, they can.” Rare orchid's locations not revealed for protection The bayonet spider orchid ...

There are less than 1,000 of these rare ghost orchids left in the wild. They're getting new life in Detroit, hundreds of miles away from their natural habitat in the Everglades. "We're hoping that ...