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.

Most orchids live in a symbiotic relationship with fungi in their roots: The plants provide sugar they produce through ...

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 ...