Despite its fame as one of Japan's iconic orchids, the function of this structure has remained a mystery—until now. The Kobe University botanist Suetsugu Kenji specializes in orchids that feed ...

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been revealed ...

The patterns and structure of Brassia orchids resemble a spider in its web enough to encourage these wasps to lay their eggs in the plants' blossoms and in doing so pollinate them.

Despite its fame as one of Japan's iconic orchids, the function of this structure has remained a mystery -- until now. The Kobe University botanist Suetsugu Kenji specializes in orchids that feed ...