Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the ...

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

Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

A new lady's-slipper orchid, once believed to be extinct in the UK, has been spotted in the wild for the first time in 100 ...

Conservationists are celebrating the resurgence of the lady’s-slipper orchid, one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers, with the ...

Last year, monitoring uncovered the first “new” lady’s-slipper orchid in nearly 100 years at one of the reintroduction sites, ...

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. Kobe ...

Japanese orchids reproduce by self-fertilization with flowers that never open, challenging evolutionary theories.

Vibrant display, with orchids from Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, sent powerful message about need to protect the ...

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

The lady’s slipper orchid came close to vanishing from the English countryside, with its discovery described as a “truly thrilling moment”.