The 56-year-old, who goes by one name like many Indonesians, is a self-taught conservationist with no formal background in botanics. Farmer Musimin is on a one-man mission to save the exotic blooms ...

Editor's note: The is part two of a two-part series looking at native orchids found in Lake County. Orchids, known to be elegant, evolved and delicate, are among the rarest plants and habitats found ...

Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part series looking at native orchids found in Lake County. Watch for the next part that will feature native orchid identification and more about Lake County ...

Winter has many daydreaming about a tropical paradise. Orchids can transform the average home into a tropical setting.

When it’s not blooming, the roots of the ghost orchid can blend into a tree trunk in the swamps of South Florida, leaving no trace of the delicate white flower that inspires its name. This rare orchid ...

An abundant patch of orchids has been "destroyed" during work by Forestry England to improve a track for logging operations. The work to create ditches and resurface the route to Mayland Bank in ...

The response of organisms to anthropogenic or natural modification of the environment is one of the most important questions in conservation biology and ecological theory. In spite of the fact that ...

Among all the flora in the Forest Preserve District of Will County, one is so distinctive, so vulnerable and so rare, that officials will not reveal its location. It is not easy to find the elusive ...