Discussing buttercups, marigolds or orchids with a taxonomist in ... The rub is that botanical names change alongside scientific discovery: Advances in fields like genetics, microscopy and fossil ...

The Lost Orchid. By Sarah Bilston. Harvard University Press; 400 pages; $29.95 and £24.95 ...

Sathish and his scientific team are trying to cross ... During his visit to Sikkim, he was asked to suggest a name for a second orchid, a Dendrobium hybrid, and Vajpayee named it Kalpana Chawla ...

The new orchid is believed to live within an area ... but seeing it accompanied by the scientific name will make them happier,” Antonio Hitcher, a member of the Pemón Kamarakoto tribe from ...

coupled with a disposition to regard orchid growing as a kind of mysterious cult, has retarded to a great degree the application of scientific methods to this branch of horticulture. Orchids are ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific ... the species name Spiranthes hachijoensis. Before this discovery, three species of Spiranthes orchids were found in Japan ...

Researchers with ties to the University of Guam have helped name and describe an orchid species that is only found on Guam and Rota. The orchid known to local botanists for decades but never ...