Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ecuador is home to over 4,000 native orchid species, thanks to its unique climatic and geographic conditions. Now, researchers ...

(CNN) — Sometimes newfound flower species are lurking where scientists least expect to see them — in parks, gardens and even in planters on balconies. That’s where researchers in Japan recently ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Around a decade ago, Kobe University biologist Kenji Suetsugu took ...

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 ...

Perched high in the Colombian Andes, researchers have found orchid species new to science and are working to save them from changing climate and land use. Colombia's combination of lowland dry forests ...

JAKARTA, 28 March (BelTA - ANTARA) - Researchers from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) have discovered a new species of leafless root orchid, Chiloschista tjiasmantoi Metusala, an ...

Winter has many daydreaming about a tropical paradise. Orchids can transform the average home into a tropical setting.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the ghost orchid, considered to be Florida’s most famous flower, under the Endangered Species Act. The announcement came on Wednesday, more than ...

The ghost orchid found in Florida and Cuba, proposed June 4 for Endangered Species Act protections. (Tony Pernas/Center for Biological Diversity) HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (CN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

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 ...