Orchids have been a popular houseplant since the Victorian era, when the passion for collecting these tropical beauties reached feverish heights, sending orchid hunters across the world in search of ...

YEN-YU KAO, SONG-BIN CHANG, TSAI-YUN LIN, CHANG-HUAIN HSIEH, YAO-HUANG CHEN, WEN-HUEI CHEN, CHI-CHANG CHEN Annals of Botany, Vol. 87, No. 3 (March 2001), pp. 387-395 (9 pages) Karyotypes of nine ...

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 ...

Rob Stirling is a horticultural adviser at Wisley and has been collecting and growing orchids, especially those with scent, for the past 30 years. The moth orchid, Phalaenopsis, is still a favourite ...

A species form of the now incredibly popular and heavily hybridized moth orchid, P. schilleriana is relatively easy to grow as a houseplant. Its flower color varies across plants through pinks and ...