“Raw sexuality” . . . “carnality” . . . “luscious scents” . . . And that’s just the first paragraph of Erica Hannickel’s lively “Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers.” Nothing brings ...

Before there was an Orchid Thief, there was Rebecca T. Northen. Northen, whose 1950 book "Home Orchid Growing" is still the bible for growers -- amateur and professional alike -- did for orchids what ...

Illinois College will host a book launch and reception celebrating the release of the book “Saving Orchids: Stories of Species Survival in a Changing World.” Written by IC Hitchcock Professor of ...

That was how much it cost to buy Dr. Carlyle A. Luer’s “The Native Orchids of Florida” at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami in 1972. The book inspired him to go on his orchid safaris ...

The corpse flower, when it opens every few years, attracts admirers by the tens of thousands. It is only in bloom for two or three days, and for those days it stinks. People stand in line to savor its ...