Today the collection boasts more than 5,000 orchids, including three Angraecum longicalcar, one of which saw its creamy white flowers bloom for the first time this past November.

The one-of-a-kind archive occupies almost 10,000 square feet near the city's western edges.

Illinois College's orchid research continues to bloom with a new book release and international collaborations, highlighting conservation efforts.

World News: National flowers serve as symbols of a country's natural beauty, heritage, and cultural pride. These floral emblems often have historical or cultural ...

The hawkmoth known as Wallace’s Sphinx (Xanthopan morganii praedicta) is nectar drinking and is known to visit the spectacular flowers of Darwin’s Orchid (Angraecum sesquipedale) in the ...

Scientists from Madagascar, the U.S. and Europe have described a new orchid species found up in the forest canopies of central Madagascar. The orchid, named Solenangis impraedicta, boasts a nectar ...

A male sword-billed hummingbird. Image via Wiki Commons. Sometimes nature surprises us with extraordinary products of evolution. One prime example is the extraordinary sword-billed hummingbird ...

Spectacular, white-flowered Angraecum longicalcar, is endemic to Madagascar – it can only be found there, like more than 90% of the nearly 1,000 Madagascan orchid species. One of the largest-flowered ...

Explore the captivating world of Madagascar's orchids, from Darwin's iconic species to vital conservation efforts as we unveil the science and beauty behind these unique and vulnerable plants.

Darwin and fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace predicted the existence of Wallace's sphinx moth from an orchid with an extremely long nectar tube.

From the showstopper Cymbidiella pardalina, with its operatic scarlet lip, to the thumbnail-size yellow Angraecum rhynchoglossum, about a thousand species of orchids call Madagascar home.

Xanthopan praedicta, or Darwin's hawkmoth, is the only creature capable of fertilizing the orchid Angraecum sesquipedale thanks to a proboscis considerably longer than the moth itself. Image ...