Y ou’ve seen blue orchids at your local florist or grocery store and probably thought – is that real?? You wouldn’t be wrong to question their almost neon-blue color as some ...

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

Dr. Heidi Zimmer is an orchid researcher at the Australian National Herbarium (ANH) in Canberra. While visiting Norfolk Island National Park with botanist Dr. Mark Clements, the local knowledge ...

The pseudo-copulation strategy of the orchid enables it to spread its genes widely. The mimicry is near-perfect. For example, the Australian hammer orchid has taken advantage of a mating ritual of ...