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Your Orchid Is Not Dead! These Secret Gardening Tips Can Help It Bloom Over And Over
Have you recently gazed mournfully at your orchid, convinced it has given up the ghost? Don't lose hope just yet! Orchids are ...
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Some orchids have 'fingers' to pollinate themselves
Scientists have solved the 130-year mystery of Stigmatodactylus sikokianus, a fungus-consuming orchid with a unique ...
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New orchid species discovered resembles a small cupcake
As per taxonomic rules, the species from Norfolk Island retained the name Adelopetalum argyropus because it was the first ...
Cleveland Botanical Garden’s ‘Orchids: Love in Bloom’ opens Feb. 14
CLEVELAND, Ohio – “Orchids: Love in Bloom” opens at the Cleveland Botanical Garden Friday, Feb. 14 and continues until Sunday ...
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An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself
A species of fungus-eating orchid has an ingenious self-pollinating method. The secret lies in the orchid’s mysterious finger-like appendage. “I knew there had to be more to it than just an ...
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Orchid's unique structure reveals new self-pollination mechanism
More information: Dactyliform appendage contributes to delayed selfing in the diminutive orchid Stigmatodactylus sikokianus, Plants People Planet (2025). DOI: 10.1002/PPP3.10624 ...