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

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS tend ... borrowed a Swedish idiom to name a startling new concept in genetics and child development: orkidebarn. Orkidebarn means “orchid child,” and it stands in contrast ...

The ghost orchid, named so because of the shape of ... These tiny, white flowers don’t have a scientific name and measure no more than 1 millimeter in diameter. Native to China and Taiwan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Because the plants are well camouflaged, when that happens, the flowers seem to float in midair, giving the ghost orchid its name ... petition on overwhelming scientific evidence that shows ...

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 ...

the flower's scientific name -- Orchis-- derives from a Greek word for testicles. But while the biology and ecology of orchids has gotten plenty of attention from researchers, there are few ...

Scientific estimates suggest that there ... “We have also seen evidence that orchids are traded under other names and disguised as other plants that don’t have legal cover,” says Bashyal.