In the heart of Santa Elena is the Monteverde Orchid Garden, a lush tropical oasis blooming with over 100 species of colorful orchids at any given time of the year. Over 30 years ago, the founder ...

The second image that comes to mind is probably a beautiful flower in a lush tropical rainforest ... draw crowds from far and wide hoping to catch a glimpse of their beauty. These orchids bloom ...

Epiphytes, plants such as orchids and mosses that grow in trees, draw nutrients from the air ... "Communities of plants that live in rainforest canopies -- ferns, orchids and bromeliads -- play ...

The tangle orchids flower in October and November with very small, delicately scented white, brown and green-spotted flowers. They have a long stem that can run up the side of trees 10 metres high ...

The garden’s Fuqua Orchid Center ... are shown in two tropical greenhouses — one that simulates a cool and foggy cloud forest and the other a hot and sticky rainforest. The different climates ...

With even snowdrops shy of emerging in the garden so far this year, a profusion of orchids, bromeliads ... number of threatened species is the tropical rainforest, where 63 per cent of threatened ...

A series of expeditions by WWF scientists into previously unexplored areas of tropical rainforest in Papua New Guinea have revealed at least eight new orchid species previously unknown to science.