In a new study published in New Phytologist, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, along with partners in Latin America, Asia and Australia, present an updated family tree of orchids, tracing their origins to the northern hemisphere some 85 million years ago. Not only does the study shed new...
Why Is Everything an Orchid? Orchids were Darwin’s “abominable mystery.” They continue to elude science—and efforts to save them. By Sofia Quaglia Sign up for our monthly newsletter! After investigating the origin of the species, Charles Darwin lunged into an exploration of something that seemed, by...