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There are some 200 species of Bauhinia, the genus of showy flowering trees and shrubs commonly known as orchid tree and named for the 16th-and-17th-century Swiss botanist brothers Bauhin. Perhaps the ...

Q. I have a beautiful orchid tree (Bauhinia purpurea) with dark red blooms. Do I propagate it by air layering? J.G., Bellaire A. You can propagate from seed. Collect the pods as they're about to split ...

If you are a fan of orchids, then you will love orchid trees. Where orchids only flower once a year, the trees flower most of the year. Orchids require special care, but orchid trees are hardy, ...

Bangaloreans should be delighted to see large, orchid like purple flowers borne in profusion by many road side trees while commuting everyday. These are the Purple Bauhinia trees (Bauhinia purpurea) ...

An unusual orchid is the Purple Passion ground orchid (Spathoglottis x hybridum ‘Purple Passion’). As opposed to many other orchids that grow above ground, suspended by other plants, the common name ...