Here is a list of ten of the most endangered and rarest plants in the world. Thought to be extinct in the wild, this rare flower blooms rarely in New Zealand. This cycad, a single-clone species, is ...

Excavation work will be carried out on the Paphos-Polis Chrysochous road from Wednesday until Saturday, the Public Works department said on Tuesday. Works will start at 9am and continue 6pm ...

When hand pollinating slipper orchids (Paphiopedilum spp.) for example, the pouch-shaped petal on its flowers must be carefully cut to reach the waxy pollen. This pollen is collected using a sewing ...

Paphiopedilum, commonly known as the lady’s slipper orchid, is a fascinating group of plants included in the Appendix I list of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild ...

The Botanical Garden’s beloved orchid show opens this weekend for its 20th outing, celebrating all the weird and fascinating variety of this plant. Designed by landscape architect and artist ...

The costliest orchid in Kerala is Drury’s Paphiopedilum, which is found in Agastyamala hills .” State director of WWF India, Renjan Mathew Varghese, says: “Many of us like to grow orchids at ...

Some members of the Paphos Bar Association went on indefinite strike on Monday, protesting new security measures at Paphos District Court. In a letter sent to Justice Minister Stefi Drakou, the ...

Always check the roots before watering and use lukewarm water so as to no shock the plant. For specialist orchids like Paphiopedilum or Phragmipedium, use either rainwater or filtered water, as they ...

hirsutissimum), it could be an important area for designing SSR primers in Paphiopedilum. FIGURE 7. Comparison of junctions between single-copy and inverted repeat regions in the chloroplast genomes ...

Druryi’s paphiopedilum, an orchid that once thrived in the Agastya hill range but whose numbers have dipped drastically over the years, is now flowering in profusion at Thiruvananthapuram’s ...