Have you recently gazed mournfully at your orchid, convinced it has ... deriving moisture and nutrients from the air and rain rather than soil. This unique adaptation means that orchids require ...

The orchid Oreorchis patens offers a prime opportunity ... quantify how many extra nutrients they might be gaining, and determine whether that extra translates into enhanced growth or reproductive ...

Benefits of soil organic matter (SOM) include improvement of soil quality through increased retention of water and nutrients, resulting in greater productivity of plants in natural environments ...

It grows exclusively in forested areas with wet soil, engaged in an interdependent relationship with a specific fungus to attain nutrients. Now eradicated from North Carolina, the white fringeless ...