Some orchids mimic the scent of a female insect in order to attract males for pollination. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology found that breeding two of these ...

It can take a decade of hard work to bring a new orchid to market. While the rewards can be significant - the global orchid market is worth hundreds of millions of dollars - the competition to produce ...

KALAMAZOO – The orchid-breeding operation that Hark Orchids will build in Kalamazoo will be high-tech agriculture, local and state officials say. “Mostly folks are going to wear white laboratory coats ...

Celebrating its 15th year of orchid exhibitions, the New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx, is now paying homage to the wealth of orchids, acclaimed tropical gardens, renowned orchid breeding and ...

Orchids represent one of the largest and most diverse families of flowering plants, prized for their extraordinary floral diversity and economic value. Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing, ...

Two rare orchid species have interbred for the first time in Britain to produce a new hybrid. Monkey orchids and lady orchids, which are closely related, produced the new flower at Hartslock Nature ...

Some orchids mimic the scent of a female insect in order to attract males for pollination. Researchers have found that breeding two of these orchid species to generate a novel hybrid resulted in a new ...