The Acuna's Star orchid grows from trees, easily distinguishable by its bright yellow petals. Against tree trunks, the plants stick out easily under Eagle Eye. The Acuna's Star Orchid is involved in ...

'Country Ever After' star Criscilla Anderson dies at 45 A seal galumphs into a bar. The bartender says 'Grab the salmon!' Woman recalls '90s childhood vacations—has sudden realization: "a cover" Why ...

One of the first skills taught to pediatricians and obstetricians is how to assess the physiological condition of a baby in the first few minutes after birth. As a novice physician, this was one of my ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the so-called “monkey-face orchids” have become online ...

Kobe University researchers found that orchids rely on wood-decaying fungi to germinate, feeding on the carbon from rotting logs. Their seedlings only grow near deadwood, forming precise fungal ...

The world's most mysterious and elusive orchid lives underground in Australia. Scientists are trying to rescue this botanic marvel from going completely extinct. As a child, Kingsley Dixon's favourite ...

SINGAPORE – Orchids, such as Singapore’s national flower Vanda Miss Joaquim, are popular garden plants that are admired for their colourful and flamboyant blossoms. They are also epiphytic plants that ...

SINGAPORE – “Selected for vigour and the amount of growth it produces,” remarked then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as she posed for photos with an orchid named after her in the Singapore ...

Conservationists are celebrating the resurgence of the lady’s-slipper orchid, one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers, with the discovery of the first new plant in the wild in almost a century. The ...

Pink lady’s slippers are the most common lady's-slipper orchid in Ohio, but they are still rare and mostly found in the southeastern part of the state. The orchids trick bumblebees into pollinating ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Orchids have inspired obsession, theft, and even Hollywood — just ask The Orchid Thief or Meryl Streep in Adaptation. But this fascination isn ...