Hong Kong orchid, besides being fun to say, brings to mind an exotic location and beautiful flowers. That is exactly what you ...

It is of the same family as the city’s official flower, the Bauhinia blakeana. The flowering plant is a vine, which climbs around larger trees towards the top where there is more sunlight.

First discovered in 1880, the hybrid species Bauhinia blakeana was originally cultivated in the colonial-era Botanic Gardens and later introduced across the territory. Over the past century ...