Native to high elevations in northeast India, China, Burma, and Thailand, Vanda coerulea is prized for its flowers' rich blue, a color rare among cultivated orchids. Wild populations of this orchid ...

In 1965, Professor Dr. Thavorn Vajrabhaya, B.S., from the Department of Botany at Chulalongkorn University, established plant tissue culture in Thailand. He was the first person in the country to use ...

Hailed as a green hero, the late Joseph Margraf was recognised for his reforestation initiatives. Based in China, the German biologist founded the Tianzi Exploratory Nature Reserve in the mountains of ...

The flowers of the celebrated 'blue' orchid, Vanda coerulea 'The Node' (above), vary from mauve-white to lavender blue. The orchid was heavily collected from the wild before the development of equally ...

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