On the underside of a Phalaenopsis leaf, only a few threads can be seen, as fine as scratches on glass. Beneath them, a chase is under way that the naked eye can barely follow. One mite drains the contents of the plant’s cells; another follows in its tracks. The adult pest and the adult hunter…
Month: September 2026
10 Orchids. Phalaenopsis gigantea
The beginning — Jaheri Not every story of a newly discovered species begins with a revelation. Sometimes it begins with someone looking at an extraordinary plant and reaching the perfectly reasonable conclusion that it is something already familiar. That was what happened in 1897, when Jaheri, a plant collector working for the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens,…