Flower power

ORCHIDS ARE DIVERSE in every way – including size, form, colour, habitat and distribution – and there’s plenty of them to enjoy. With around 28,500 species described globally, orchids are one of the world’s two most common flowering plant families (asters are the other).

And they inspire single-minded devotion: talk to any Australian orchid enthusiast and you’ll get the picture. So a new, nationwide citizen-science effort to learn more about orchids