Annals of Botany, Vol. 104, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Orchid Biology (August 2009), pp. 557-563 (7 pages) • Background and Aims Undisturbed forest habitat can be relatively impenetrable to invasive, ...

The world of orchids is rich and varied, offering a dizzying array of choices. One of my favorite orchids, Miltoniopsis, a pretty epiphytic or lithophytic orchid hailing from the higher elevations of ...

A current key issue in ecology is the role of spatial effects on population and community dynamics. In this paper, we test several hypotheses related to spatial structures and coexistence of epiphytic ...

For the first time, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute track unique signals from tiny transmitters glued to individual orchid bees, yielding new insight into the role of bees ...

Joe Meisel discusses his work to conserve the tropical orchid habitat in Ecuador. Joe Meisel, Vice President, Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation, discusses his work to conserve tropical ...

Blue-green orchid bees zip through increasingly scarce patches of tropical forest to pollinate rare flowers. For the first time, researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute track unique ...

It ain't what it use to be. Yesterday's snake plants and parlor palms have given way to the exotic, the expensive, the classy tropical orchid. Only they're not expensive anymore. The breeders, the ...

THIS is an excellent work, devoted to the orchids of extra-tropical South Africa, and arranged on the lines of the “Refugium Botanicum” of Mr. Wilson Saunders. The first part includes fifty plates, ...

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens added “A Splash of Brilliance” to the drab winter landscape with the opening of its annual orchid and tropical bonsai show, highlighting specimens from two of ...

Back in 1994, when Sandy Myhalik and Stephen Calderon built their Farmington home with its spectacular views of the Farmington Valley and beyond to the west, the room was just a little sunroom. Now it ...