In Kerala’s Western Ghats, 20 local women are restoring a rainforest from the roots up. At Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, they ...

The Butterfly Rainforest at the Florida Museum of Natural History currently has two blooming ghost orchids, which have brought interested and recurring visitors since they first flowered on July 6 ...

The bloom of the purple orchid tree, native to south China, growing inside the Garfield Park Conservatory on the southside of Indianapolis on Jan. 13. The Conservatory contains more than 10,000 ...

On the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, Petrolli and his colleagues sampled roots from 10 species of rainforest orchids growing on six individual trees, three each from two different tree species.

A lavish exhibition, “The Orchid Show: Natural Heritage” explores the diversity of these charismatic flowers. By Will Heinrich The orchid, a family embracing nearly 30,000 species on six ...

COLOMBO — A rare new orchid described from a tropical lowland rainforest in Sri Lanka now bears the name of two of the island’s pioneering forest ecologists.. A new paper published in the ...

About a year ago, 11-year-old David Marcovici started collecting orchids. Since then, he’s amassed a few dozen that have turned the family kitchen into a mini-rainforest. His favorites are ...

Another common orchid is putty root (Aplectrum hyemale). Putty root is a larger orchid with a flower stalk that can reach between 1- and 2-feet tall and puts out anywhere from eight to 20 flowers.