The population structure of three epiphytic orchids (Lycaste aromatica, Jacquiniella teretifolia, and J. leucomelana) was studied in a Mexican humid montane forest. We measured all individuals on ...

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 ...

Winter has many daydreaming about a tropical paradise. Orchids can transform the average home into a tropical setting.

Yet another reason to love our local nature – our epiphytic bromeliads, and an odd, beautiful orchid, lend the humid hammocks and swamps of south Georgia a jungle-like, subtropical feel. Epiphytes, ...

The orchid family contains more species that any other family of flowering plants. They have adapted to climates ranging from the Arctic Circle to the equator, but most of the orchids we grow as ...

OOTY: Wild orchids, considered as the jewels of the jungles, and which are now rare and confined to a few patches of jungle, are in good bloom in the jungle limits in the Nilgiris. Dr S.Rajan, field ...

The cold, dreary days of winter have many people daydreaming about jetting away to some exotic location to bask briefly in a tropical paradise before having to return to the bone-chilling reality of a ...

The orchid family could have died out like dinosaurs if insects had chosen to feed on simpler plants and not on orchids. The orchids wouldn't have been pollinated, and without pollination they would ...