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orchid

[awr-kid] / ˈɔr kɪd /




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The number and variety of plants increased over time, including locally rare species such as southern marsh orchid, greater tussock-sedge, yellow rattle and common centaury.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

“This is so tragic,” one person commented on the gallery’s post, noting that Summers had recently bid on an orchid print they were preparing for her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Which is why, in the race to develop new orchid types, the laboratory is at least as important as the greenhouse.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Some may be tiny, like the orchid babies nursing on wood-eating fungi; others may be gargantuan, like the Posidonia australis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"Hmm. I did find a flower out in the desert south of Basra....Like an orchid, but totally adapted to an arid environment. I was amazed that it could survive there."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

As the meadow developed, thousands of orchids became established naturally.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

The double bloom this summer was “definitely a surprise,” said Brandon Tam, the Huntington’s associate curator of orchids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

My late father-in-law loved orchids, and in his decadeslong passion he built and maintained two large greenhouses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

He, fellow staff and scores of volunteers were shuffling between tasks like firing up stoves and spreading protective covers on a collection of smaller plants, like orchids.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

If I couldn’t bring her to the orchids, I would bring an orchid to her.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller


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