Also known as Orchids
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants, living in diverse habitats on every continent except Antarctica. The world's richest diversity of orchid genera and species is in the tropics. Many species are epiphytes, living on trees. The flowers and their pollination mechanisms are highly specialized, attracting insect pollinators by colour, pattern, scent, pheromones, and sometimes by mimicking female insects. Orchids have very small seeds, relying on fungal partners for germination. Some orchids have no leaves, either photosynthesizing with their roots or relying entirely on fungal partners for food.
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1 articleWith one plant each: Bletilla (Bletilla striata (Chinese ground orchid)), Calanthe (Chinese Ground Orchid), Calypso (Fairy-slipper), Cypripedium (Pink Lady's Slipper), Dendrobium (Noble dendrobium), Eulophia (Chinese Crown Orchid), Gastrodia (Gastrodia elata), Goodyera (Downy Rattlesnake Plantain), Tipularia (Crane-fly orchid).
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Orchids pollinated by perfume-collecting male bees evolve new flower shapes up to 7.8 times faster than orchids relying on other pollination strategies, showing how a single picky pollinator relationship can supercharge plant diversity.
The slow-growing wild orchids poached for traditional medicine, the same showy plants admired in greenhouses and plant shops,...
If you've got mulched beds or disturbed soil near Orlando, this orchid might already be growing in your own yard without you...
If this embryonic grafting trick gets refined, gardeners could someday graft prized grass varieties or orchids the same way...
The showy Chinese ground orchid grown in shade gardens for its purple spring blooms turns out to be a source of compounds...
If you've ever had a Kalanchoë or other succulent drop flower buds or develop mysterious leaf damage, this research is chasing...
This orchid hides in plain sight by growing its single leaf only in winter, so if you want to find one you have to look during...
The mottled, silvery-veined rosette hiding under the leaf litter on your next forest walk isn't a random weed, it's a native...
Downy rattlesnake plantain is one of the few native orchids you might actually stumble across on a shaded forest walk near...
Orchid bees are the sole pollinators of many tropical orchid species, so the forest patches and brushy edges you might see...
If you walk any eastern woodland trail this month, you have a real chance of spotting one of North America's most spectacular...
Pink lady's slippers growing in your local woods take 10–15 years to flower for the first time and die if transplanted —...
Gastrodia elata — a rootless, leafless orchid prized in traditional medicine — survives entirely by partnering with a specific...
If you've ever tried to grow an orchid and watched it sulk, knowing it evolved in a distinct climate realm — Neotropical,...
Pink lady's slippers blooming near your local trails take 10–17 years to flower from seed and will die if transplanted —...
Pink lady's slippers growing in your local woods take 10–15 years to first bloom and can't survive transplanting — spotting...
Pink lady's slippers take up to 15 years to bloom from seed and can only germinate with the help of a specific soil fungus —...
Hardy orchid (Bletilla striata) — the pleated-leaf, magenta-flowered plant already thriving in shaded temperate garden borders...
If you've ever struggled to keep an epiphytic orchid alive indoors, the answer may lie in the invisible fungal partners their...
Orchids in your garden or local woodland may be quietly extracting sugars from soil fungi rather than making all their own...
Fairy-slippers are one of the most delicate wild orchids in North America, and finding one in Skagit County means the...
It suggests a common ornamental orchid used in herbal teas and supplements may contain compounds that could one day inform...
Crane-fly orchids are a sign of healthy, undisturbed forest floor habitat, so spotting one near you means your local woods may...
Fairy-slipper orchids are sensitive to soil disturbance and disappear quickly when forests are logged or developed, making...
Orchids in your garden or local woodland may be quietly extracting sugars from soil fungi rather ...
If you've ever struggled to keep an epiphytic orchid alive indoors, the answer may lie in the inv...
The wild orchid diversity you might spot on a rainforest hike or in a specialty greenhouse traces...
If you've ever tried to grow an orchid and watched it sulk, knowing it evolved in a distinct clim...
Orchid bees are the sole pollinators of many tropical orchid species, so the forest patches and b...
The slow-growing wild orchids poached for traditional medicine, the same showy plants admired in ...
If you've ever had a Kalanchoë or other succulent drop flower buds or develop mysterious leaf dam...
If this embryonic grafting trick gets refined, gardeners could someday graft prized grass varieti...
