Luer’s “The Native Orchids of Florida” at the Fairchild Tropical ... and it’s now extinct in the wild. He runs inside and comes back out with a jar of vanilla pods from the orchid that ...

Growing up in South Florida, my dad had a collection of orchids that happily grew outdoors year-round under the shade of a tangelo ... at home indoors is to learn about the plant and try to replicate ...

“The ghost orchid is an icon of beauty and nature’s abundance,” said George Gann, executive director at The Institute for Regional Conservation. “Its long demise in southern Florida and Cuba, in part ...