IN SHORT, the orchid is something beyond the beyond, even in a world of whimsical blossoms, which may be one reason it has ...

The plant is a ghost orchid - a rare flower with no leaves or chlorophyll - the green pigment that absorbs sunlight so that plants can turn it into energy. Unlike most plants, the orchid doesn't ...

Can you take home a rare plant? Yes, if you're a botanist with a collecting permit and home is a herbarium. Dr. Heidi Zimmer is an orchid researcher ... labellum—no giant bright yellow tongue ...

A rare orchid called Irish lady's-tresses has appeared on a Welsh nature reserve. A small colony of the creamy white flowers were found on Cors Fochno, a peat bog between Borth and the Dyfi ...

One of Britain's rarest orchids could soon be flowering on a military firing range, conservationists hope. The internationally protected fen orchid grows in the wild in only two locations in the UK.

This delay comes as two people allegedly took a ghost orchid, and other rare orchids and air plants, from Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park late last year. In an incident report, law-enforcement ...

The petition argued that the agency should add the rare native orchid to the endangered species list and designate critical habitat, which is essential to its survival and recovery. The ghost orchid ...

HONOR THE OUTSTANDING ORCHID: To say that an orchid casts its own glow is a flowery flight of fancy, but these otherworldly specimens always seem to occupy a special spotlight, even if no source ...