Chinese researchers have solved the mystery of the function of sheaths in flowering orchids. In a new paper, the team found the perch to be essential to orchid reproduction. Chinese researchers have ...

The cost of current reproduction on future growth, survival, and reproduction is a central concept in evolutionary ecology, but the field evidence in plants for a cost of reproduction is weak because ...

A small population of the orchid Triphora trianthophora in western Massachusetts was investigated over a six-year period (1988 through 1993). Observations on the flowering habits and seed capsule ...

A species of seed-feeding fly is critically damaging the seed production of multiple orchid species, as revealed by a group of Japanese researchers. If the damage caused by this fly is occurring ...

Among the tens of thousands of orchids on display in the annual orchid show, the most precious is ugly and stinky. The bulbophyllum phalaenopsis, with its 5-foot drooping leaves and blossoms reeking ...

The Smithsonian’s Horticulture Services Division and the U.S. Botanic Garden will open the 15th annual orchid exhibit, “Orchids Through Darwin’s Eyes,” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

(a)−(e) Natural mutant of leaf colours and (f)−(o) natural mutant (varieties) of flower types in Chinese orchid, Bar = 1 cm. This review explores China's orchid industry, tracing its deep cultural ...

Liz Chehayl, Naples Botanical Garden's Curator of Collections, walks around plant life where ghost orchids are preparing to bloom on June 29, 2016. (Erica Brechtelsbauer/Staff) (Photo: Erica ...