Which plants display the showiest, most flamboyant flowers? Some will insist that they are the various orchid species. The orchid family truly is a giant group, easily the largest plant family in the ...

Summertime welcomes one of the most unusual of all the epiphytic genera — Brassias — affectionately known as “spider orchids.” The arachnid nickname is well-suited because the blossoms look like they ...

The Brassidium Lillian Oka ‘Hawaii’ is a cross between a Brassia, the spider orchid, and an oncidium, dancing lady orchid, that makes the hybrids a little easier to grow and the flowers a little ...

The early spider orchid was found on a grass roof at Swanage sewage treatment works by ecologists from Wessex Water after staff changed their usual mowing process. It is unclear how the protected ...

Rising temperatures have wrecked a relationship, which relies on precision timing to succeed, between a rare orchid species and the Buffish Mining-bee which pollinates it. The first definitive ...

Selbyana, Vol. 26, No. 1/2, Proceedings of the Second International Orchid Conservation Congress (2005), pp. 159-170 (12 pages) The genus Caladenia (spider orchids) is one of the most diverse in ...