Wild Orchids - The Peak District, England Considered to be one of the most beautiful wildflower species in the UK, wild orchids can be found during late spring through until early summer in ...

Orchids have been seen in bloom at Marlow's Homefield Wood and will be flowering through the end of May into early June.

When you think of orchids ... Because they are a protected species, be sure to purchase from a reputable seller who does not ...

A species of endangered orchid has flowered in the UK for the first time. Dendrophylax lindenii, known as the Florida Ghost Orchid in the US and Cuba, has blossomed at the Royal Botanic Gardens ...

A mention of orchids sparks images of elaborately beautiful tropical flowers. It often surprises people to discover that Ireland is home to 31 different species of wild orchid, some common and ...

This is an extract from our Wild Wild Life email newsletter ... THE announcement of a newly recognised orchid species in Japan prompted discussion among our UK news team recently.

New England is home to about 70 species of wild orchids, some of them rare, and many of them threatened by habitat loss and climate change, in addition to poachers. The small whorled pogonia ...

Ice cream made from salep - a flour produced from the tubers of dried, wild orchids growing in the mountains of south-eastern Turkey - is a great delicacy in the country. It is so popular that part of ...

Ghost orchids rarely survive when taken from the wild. Poaching has already led to the extinction of at least two species of Florida orchids. Last year, law enforcement officers arrested a poacher ...

Orchids are unsustainably plucked from the wild the world over to furnish private collections, driving many species to the brink of extinction. Conservationists in Southeast Asia are increasingly ...