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 ...

Despite its sweet-sounding name, the candy spider-orchid (Caladenia versicolor) was thought to deceive pollinators, only looking and smelling like it rewarded them with nectar. New research shows the ...

The early spider orchid and miner bee, that depend on each other for reproduction, have become increasingly out of sync as spring temperatures rise, research has shown. Credit: ...

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 ...