orchid

While the rewards can be significant - the global orchid market is worth hundreds of millions of dollars - the competition to produce the next gorgeous flower is intense.

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

I love every orchid equally,’ and he does,” his daughter said in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

I put the orchid I had brought the girls in her hands.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Zachary Weiss, a writer in New York, likes to send orchids to his hosts well after landing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

The cultivation of orchids is a resource heavy business.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

There’s something about the vegetation, too, that I respond to instinctively—the stunning bougainvillea, the flamboyants and jacarandas, the orchids growing from the trunks of the mysterious ceiba trees.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García