Plants that grow upon other plants are called epiphytes. Epiphytes, such as our native Spanish moss, are not parasites, but simply use the tree as a base to grow on. Although rainfall is plentiful in ...

For millions of years the largest family in the kingdom of plants, the orchids, abounded in the world of tropical rain forests. Orchids belong to the monocotyledon category of plants along with palms, ...

Slowly walking along a track in bushland just outside Hobart, Aimee Bliss searches the edge of a dry forest for some of Tasmania's most fascinating plants. This time of year, many of the state's ...

I was in a nursery recently and wandered into the greenhouse where they had tropical plants generally grown indoors. There were all the typical foliage plants, such as dracaena, dieffenbachia, pothos ...

As the dynamics of CASCO continue to grow and expand, they are now offering Orchids and other plants for sale. This comes as no surprise since Mrs. Clarke has a passion for gardening. In the Jamaican ...

Orchids are some of the world's most diverse and popular plants — prized for their exquisitely coloured and scented blooms. Over the centuries, the plants have become a global obsession among ...

David Bird shows off his “Lady Bird” orchid, named for his wife. Bird offers a wide variety of orchids, succulents and carnivorous plants at his Bird’s Botanicals underground greenhouse open to the ...

Figure 1: OMADS box gene expression profiles in Oncidium reveal the P-code model. Figure 4: Possible evolutionary relationships between the SP and L complexes of the P-code model involved in ...

When your favorite houseplant is bursting at the seams of its pot, it’s time for a big move with big perks. Erin Marino of thesill.com says repotting has two main benefits: “It provides your plant with ...