More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...

Orchids, belonging to the Orchidaceae family, are among the most diverse and widespread flowering plants on Earth. With over ...

For decades scientists assumed these insects looked so much like orchids as a form of camouflage. But they were wrong. They ...

named around 1,000 species and discovered about 600 new plants between 1887 and 1957. Among his notable discoveries was the diminutive orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus, first identified in 1889.

Flower enthusiast Monique Kemperman from The Joy of Plants said the orchid family has an "astonishing 25,000 species".