Mary Nisbet’s love of orchids has taken her places, literally. It’s what made her leave her job at an Oregon nursery on a whim to move to San Francisco in hopes of working for Rod McLellan Co., an ...

Orchids are among the world's oldest flower groups and one of the largest, with more than 30,000 species. They emerged about 100 million years ago — 30 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex, and ...

Orchids have been a popular houseplant since the Victorian era, when the passion for collecting these tropical beauties reached feverish heights, sending orchid hunters across the world in search of ...

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I was given a seedling of an orchid tree. Can you provide me with some information about this plant? — Donald Simon Orchid trees (Bauhinia species and hybrids) are tropical trees native to India and ...

Orchids are among the world's oldest flower groups and one of the largest, with more than 30,000 species. They emerged about 100 million years ago — 30 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex, and ...