wild orchids are becoming increasingly challenging to find, leading to environmentalists endorsing laws to protect indigenous orchids. Orchids are a diverse and fascinating group of flowering plants ...

Abstract natural exotic background with copy space. Floral blossom and leaves pattern. Wild orchid plants growing attached to tree trunks in the forest. Small epiphyte plants and moss stick to the ...

Chikanda was a rare wild vegetable and traditional orchid food recipe of the Bemba people of Zambia. The Bemba people did not pose a threat to ground orchid plant however, outsiders harvesting the ...

The study of wild orchids is time-consuming but also rewarding ... 22 critically endangered and 47 endangered plants out of the reviewed species. Director of Sri Lanka Botanical Gardens Department ...

Sometimes considered weeds, plants that pop up without being planted are known as volunteers, and they can add quite a bit of interest to the garden.

This is because orchids are epiphytes, meaning they grow non-parasitically on another plant. In the wild they grow on the sides of trees. Because they are not in soil, the roots have evolved to ...

The rare ghost orchid, unseen in the UK since 2009 and thought extinct, has been rediscovered in a British woodland by botanist Richard Bate. This rem ...

Found in only a handful of guarded locations, the critically endangered red helleborine is one of the rarest plants in Britain. When summer segues into autumn, the last of Britain’s wild orchids, ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been revealed ...

Sanchezia stenomacra, commonly known as the blood red feather, is at home in the jungles of Peru. It thrives in humid environments with filtered light. It produces blood red flowers which look just ...

Sabu makes his notes and observations; plays music to some of his plants, and talks to others. That first wild orchid turned out to be the foxtail (Rhynchostylis retusa), and he has grown foxtails ...