We loved to hate his orchid ... the British Isles. Lady slippers can be micropropagated (using plant tissue culture methods in the lab), but decades of attempts to re-establish it in the wild ...

The wild orchid Habenaria radiata's pure white petals resemble a white egret in flight (hence its common name white egret orchid). H. radiata has been loved by people since ancient times but the ...

A new lady's-slipper orchid, once believed to be extinct in the UK, has been spotted in the wild for the first time in 100 years following a decades-long conservation drive, experts said Tuesday.