Conservation plant hunters have discovered four new species of mini orchids in a Colombian nature reserve. The discoveries were made in the Cauca valley between the Andes mountains and the Pacific ...

Ed Cott can’t see the beauty of his 30 or so miniature orchids without a magnifying glass. “I find them intriguing because many of those, the flower is the size of the head of a pin,” says Cott, the ...

The 18-inch-tall palaenopsis orchids so prevalent in garden centers and grocery stores, have set in our minds a kind of standard size for indoor orchids so it may come as a bit of a surprise that ...

NASHUA – The numerous varieties of orchids descended from the more than 25,000 species worldwide were on full display in living color over the weekend at the New Hampshire Orchid Society’s 28th annual ...

The New York Botanical Garden's annual Orchid Show never fails to disappoint, and this year's show, which runs through April 17, is no exception. "Orchidelirium," its theme, refers to the 19 th ...

Orchids are widely admired as exotic, mysterious and uncommonly beautiful. But would you take one home? For many, the prospect is downright intimidating. Orchids have a reputation as aristocratic ...