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 ...

The only plant comparable to the Pinanga subterranea in how it can flower and produce fruit deep in the dirt is the ...

Start by looking for vibrant leaves and firm roots – signs that the plant is healthy, he advises. “Phalaenopsis (moth orchids ...

provides the first evidence that early stage orchid seedlings germinate and thrive near to adult plants due to a kind of parental nurture using underground fungal networks. Scientists investigated ...

Xue Kai, 48, is one such hobbyist who has devoted much of his spare time to taking photos of flowers and wild grasses in the mountains for more than two decades.

has bright yellow flowers. "This is such a curiosity for scientists and here are two new species of these very little but very curious underground forests," Dr Cheek said. A new orchid discovered ...

The orchid spends most of its life underground, putting up flowering shoots only when environmental conditions are right. In any given year, there are far fewer than 200 of the flowers above the ...