When it blooms, the rare orchid seems to appear from nowhere and float in the air next to its host tree, but it’s there all the time. When not in bloom, the orchid has no leaves and grows tucked ...

Rare endangered orchid produces first blooms at Desert Botanical Garden For the first time since the project began in 2016, two of the fragile Canelo Hills Ladies’ Tresses orchids have flowered.

The famous ghost orchid at Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Collier County is starting to bloom again. It has one bloom with several more on the way. The orchid was found in 2007.

Cut the spike two or three nodes below the lowest flower, and the orchid may bloom again in as soon as 8 to 12 weeks. “There’s a 50% chance a new stalk will grow from the old one,” Kondrat says.