CUNDINAMARCA, Colombia — Buying flowers on ... hummingbirds and rare orchids, is "getting faster," according to Patricia Rodríguez, of the environmental organization Fundación Étika Verde.

This orchid thrives in the cloud forests of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, at high altitudes. Dracula simia requires cool, humid conditions, making it challenging to cultivate outside its natural ...

The foliage used for flower bouquets exported to countries around the world — mostly the U.S. — is being grown amid increasingly fragmented cloud forest in Cundinamarca, Colombia. A cacophony of ...