orchid
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“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
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
A rare wild orchid has been brought back from the brink of extinction by the work of dedicated conservationists.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025
Koja is concerned about the loss of unique indigenous trees like the giant orchid, already a problem before mining has even started.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2025
She bends to her special beauty, the butterfly orchid she smuggled back from Hawaii two years ago.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Still, every spare inch is crammed with more than 32 different kinds of orchids imported from around the world, including such beauties as the flame-like Epidendrum radicans and the rare Dimorphorchis lowii.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
As the meadow developed, thousands of orchids became established naturally.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The cultivation of orchids is a resource heavy business.
From BBC ● May 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
Now, with no queens or kings, it had grown wild, a forest of huge trees laced with dragon-flowers and firelocks and bushes of orchids.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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