While each type of orchid requires a different amount ... color of the rainbow and are native to India, China, Indonesia, ...

orchid species described in scientific journals orchid specimens held in the Australian National Herbarium (there are approximately 75,000!) orchids specimens held in other herbaria in Australia ...

As many as 10,000 species of dainty orchids in the floral ... For example, the Australian hammer orchid has taken advantage of a mating ritual of the Thynnid wasp, which involves a female wasp ...

As per taxonomic rules, the species from Norfolk Island retained the name Adelopetalum argyropus because it was the first ...

Dr Nargar said Australia had more than 1,700 orchid varieties and was a recognised orchid hotspot, with more than 90 per cent of species found nowhere else on the planet. "In the Australian wet ...