Alstroemeria also known as Peruvian Lily shows exotic flowers which brilliantly imitate orchid blooms ... look together with their capacity to draw pollinators such as bees and hummingbirds.

The Lost Orchid. By Sarah Bilston. Harvard University Press; 400 pages; $29.95 and £24.95 ...

The Desert Botanical Garden is trying to keep a rare orchid native to Arizona from extinction. After years of careful ...

Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for the Amorphophallus gigas, or corpse flower, the garden received seven years ago as a seedling from an orchid nursery in Malaysia. It's only one of four ...

Flower enthusiast Monique Kemperman from The Joy of Plants said the orchid family has an "astonishing 25,000 species". Celebrated for their "breathtaking floral displays", orchids typically ...

A new species of orchid was discovered in Madagascar this year and it might be the ugliest flower on the face of the Earth. The orchid, which carries the scientific name Gastrodia agnicellus ...

Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for the Amorphophallus gigas, or corpse flower, the BBG received seven years ago as a seedling from an orchid nursery in Malaysia. It's only one of four ...