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Deep in the forests of Southeast Asia, Pankaj Kumar kept careful watch over 23 small, wild plants in 2012. He returned to them again and again, waiting for them to bloom. They were orchids, he was ...

Orchids are tricky, sometimes even deceitful. They have evolved seemingly endless strategies for attracting and manipulating insects, their dull-witted partners in reproduction. And curious as it may ...

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Australia is home to more than 1,800 orchid species—many found nowhere else. But these unique plants face growing threats.

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The orchid family has some 28,000 species - more than double the number of bird species and quadruple the mammal species. As it turns out, they've also been around for a while. A ...