China is well known for its medicinal use of wild plants, a tradition that dates back thousands of years. These traditional Chinese medicines include many wild orchids, some quite showy. Typically, ...

Orchid societies around the country are gearing up for their late winter and early spring shows. One plant that always draws a crowd is Dendrobium spectabile — a naturally occurring species from ...

A team of Chinese researchers have identified a new species of dendrobium, a genus of orchids known locally as shihu, in Ya'an, Sichuan province. The discovery was published recently in the botanical ...

There are more than 25,000 species of orchid, so needless to say, there's no shortage of stunning options to choose from.

Kew Bulletin is an international peer-reviewed journal of plant taxonomy. It publishes original articles, short communications and reviews on the taxonomy, nomnecalture, phylogeny, systematics and ...

First described by Europeans in 1830, Dendrobium nobile has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2,000 years. More recently, evidence-based research has been conducted on D. nobile which ...

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