Object Details Description Some orchids contain mysteries. Angraecum sesquipedale is an orchid with an unusual adaptation – a long hollow spur which holds nectar that only a moth with a very long, ...

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.

Naturalist Charles Darwin made Angraecum orchids a household name. In 1862, he predicted that there must be a pollinator in the jungle with an 18-inch-long “tongue” (proboscis) necessary to remove ...

First known instance of a cricket as an orchid pollinator captured on film Date: January 12, 2010 Source: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Summary: A researcher studying how the orchid genus Angraecum ...