Norfolk’s most widespread and commonly encountered species is the bee orchid. They can ‘suddenly’ appear in garden lawns or ...

Where are ghost orchids found? Finding a ghost orchid in the wild can be an all-but-impossible mission as the plants live five to 50 or more feet off the ground.

A new lady's-slipper orchid, once believed to be extinct in the UK, has been spotted in the wild for the first time in 100 years following a decades-long conservation drive, experts said Tuesday.

A company creating "habitat banks", spaces designed to increase biodiversity, says it hopes that a rare orchid species found growing at its site in West Sussex will spread to neighbouring areas ...

Conservationists are celebrating the resurgence of the lady’s-slipper orchid, one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers, with the discovery of the first new plant in the wild in almost a century.

The first new wild lady's slipper orchid has been found in the wild for the first time in nearly 100 years. Credit: PA Images A decades-long bid to bring back one of Britain’s “rarest and most ...

The early purple orchids were found in ancient woodlands near Ardingly.

Last year, monitoring uncovered the first “new” lady’s-slipper orchid in nearly 100 years at one of the reintroduction sites, which meant planted-out orchids had managed to produce seeds ...