Around the country, there is a small but devoted group of hobbyists who grow their orchids the way nature intended — mounted to pieces of trees. Duplicating rainforest culture is not as challenging as ...

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 square ...

Orchid growers are passionate about their collections and learn everything they can to master the sport. Over time, they start to acquire other tropical plants, usually as gifts, which also bask in ...

Orchid growers are passionate about their collection and learn everything they can to master the sport. Over time, they start to acquire other tropical plants, usually as gifts, which also bask in the ...

Epiphytes, plants such as orchids and mosses that grow in trees, draw nutrients from the air and create refuge for all sorts of other life forms. They are the foundation of forest canopy ecosystems, ...

The most famous ecosystem on earth, tropical rainforests contain more than two-thirds of the world’s plant species. You won’t see them all on your exotic vacation, but there are some of the most ...

Telipogon cruentilabrum is one of four new rare and spectacular Telipogon species described in 2025 by Dr Carlos Martel, ...

You do not have to turn your home into a tropical rainforest to grow orchids. They are not difficult to grow, especially moth orchids (cultivars of Phalaenopsis). Moth orchids, in their native ...

By Liz Kimbrough Over the past year, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the U.K., officially named 125 plants ...