The turn of the century was an exciting time for orchid enthusiasts as new species were being discovered and the very first hybrids were being made. Hardly a week would go by without a collector ...

Plant Systematics and Evolution, Vol. 300, No. 9 (November 2014), pp. 1985-1993 (9 pages) Natural hybridization is widespread among food-deceptive orchids, whereas hybridization between deceptive and ...

The early 20th century was an exciting time for orchid enthusiasts as new species were being discovered and the very first hybrids were being made. Hardly a week would go by without a collector ...

New woody ornamentals don’t come along as often as annual bedding plants. So when El Niño desert orchid hit the market, LSU AgCenter horticulturist Jason Stagg was excited to see the flowering shrub’s ...

A few years after he published "On the Origin of Species," Charles Darwin got hooked on orchids, a passion his biographer, Janet Browne, compares to "an unexpected love affair late in life." The ...

The cold, dreary days of winter have many people daydreaming about jetting away to some exotic location to bask briefly in a tropical paradise before having to return to the bone-chilling reality of a ...