Chinese researchers have solved the mystery of the function of sheaths in flowering orchids. In a new paper, the team found the perch to be essential to orchid reproduction. Chinese researchers have ...

130 years after a fungus-eating plant received its name, a Kobe University researcher has uncovered the purpose of the structure that inspired its name—revealing a novel mechanism by which plants ...

Among the tens of thousands of orchids on display in the annual orchid show, the most precious is ugly and stinky. The bulbophyllum phalaenopsis, with its 5-foot drooping leaves and blossoms reeking ...