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Orchidomania: A history of our obsession with orchids

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Orchidomania: A history of our obsession with orchids

These images from a new illustrated book chart the long human love affair with orchids, the incredible family of flowering plants that continue to captivate us today

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Containers with Tulipa 'Brilliant Orange' underplanted with Myosotis 'Bluesylva' bedding.

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How to grow tremendous tulips

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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How flowering plants beat bloom-free gymnosperms to world dominance

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Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes

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Wild Wild Life newsletter: When species steal each other’s genes

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flowers

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Flowering plants may be 100 million years older than we thought

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Soap bubble on flower

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Soap bubbles covered in pollen could help fertilise flowers

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orchids

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Orchids at Kew Gardens review – celebrating the colour of Colombia

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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’

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Aspidistra

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Weird 'underground' flower has evolved to look like a mushroom

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Did the first flower look like this?

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What the first flower on Earth might have looked like

Some time between 250 and 140 million years ago, the very first flower bloomed – an enormous evolutionary study offers clues about its appearance

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Bumblebees can tell who visited flowers by smelly footprints

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Life

Robotic bee could help pollinate crops as real bees decline

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Mystery of why some sunflowers track the sun across skies solved

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