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 still felt excited by the possibility, like if I reminded her about the flowers, she’d wake up and say, Of course!—like if she just saw that orchid field again, she’d remember who she was.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

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

Centuries of human intervention - selective breeding and propagation - have made the genetic background of many commercial orchids a "disaster", according to leading Dutch orchid breeding firm Floricultura.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

There, in the dark, sitting on a sack of bark chips for her orchids, Dedd had slowly turned the dial on Jaimito Enrique’s transistor radio.

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