In the face of an extinction crisis, one maverick botanist is on a mission to preserve some of the most endangered plants.

The Vegetative Trap: Why It Stalls Orchids, especially the popular Phalaenopsis variety, operate in distinct biological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are orchids native to every continent except Antarctica. Their flowers are highly evolved and incredibly showy with blooms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adam Albright You bought your orchid when it was loaded with flowers and admired its gorgeous blooms for months. Now, the flowers ...

In a new study published in New Phytologist, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, along with partners in Latin America, Asia and Australia, present an updated family tree of orchids, tracing ...

The orchid family has some 28,000 species – more than double the number of bird species and quadruple the mammal species. As it turns out, they've also been around for a while. A newly published study ...