Dr. Heidi Zimmer is an orchid researcher at the Australian National Herbarium (ANH) in Canberra. While visiting Norfolk Island National Park with botanist Dr. Mark Clements, the local knowledge ...

Katharina Nargar, a senior research scientist with the CSIRO at the Australian Tropical Herbarium, said orchid weevils were a particularly insidious pest, but one mostly confined to cultivated ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been ...

The pseudo-copulation strategy of the orchid enables it to spread its genes widely. The mimicry is near-perfect. For example, the Australian hammer orchid has taken advantage of a mating ritual of ...