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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 ...

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, ...

Q. Our orchid trees have brown wilted leaves. They have some beautiful purple blooms, but not as many as last year. We think it is pollution. The leaves never fell this winter so it may be that they ...

Bauhinia trees — commonly called orchid trees for their flowers or butterfly trees for their leaves — belong to a genus of more than 300 species of flowering plants including trees, vines and shrubs ...

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) ...

I was given a seedling of an orchid tree. Can you provide me with some information about this plant? — Donald Simon Orchid trees (Bauhinia species and hybrids) are tropical trees native to India and ...

The bloom of the purple orchid tree, native to south China, growing inside the Garfield Park Conservatory on the southside of Indianapolis on Jan. 13. The Conservatory contains more than 10,000 square ...