orchid
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The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland's vascular plant red list has revealed that the Fen Orchid Liparis loeselii is officially no longer considered under threat in Britain.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025
Orchid seeds I'd scattered many years before and almost forgotten about, managed to flower.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
Orlean is one of the New Yorker’s most high-profile writers, having been portrayed by Meryl Streep in “Adaptation,” a heavily fictionalized version of her book “The Orchid Thief.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
“The Orchid Thief” took on a typically left-field Orlean subject: the trial of a Florida horticulturalist accused of stealing endangered species from a swamp in the Seminole Indian reserve.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
“In this country,” said Brave Orchid, “many people make their daughters their heirs. If you don’t go see him, he’ll give everything to the second wife’s children.”
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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