Deep in the forests of Southeast Asia, Pankaj Kumar kept careful watch over 23 small, wild plants in 2012. He returned to them again and again, waiting for them to bloom. They were orchids, he was ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The orchid family has some 28,000 species - more than double the number of bird species and quadruple the mammal species. As it turns out, they've also been around for a while. A ...

The mood was festive as a quartet of botanists made its way toward Vermont’s newly discovered rare orchid, the small whorled pogonia. Though the hilly, wooded terrain of the Winooski River Valley was ...

Covering the oldest, largest and most complex islands of the West Indies, Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles, newly published by The New York Botanical Garden Press, provides clear, detailed ...