Dendrobium officinale, a prized medicinal herb, is valued for its bioactive mannans—compounds with documented antioxidant effects, immune-enhancing properties, and potential to alleviate type 2 ...

This small to large sized orchid has a history of being confused. Said to have first been collected by an Australian soldier in the 1940s, it entered cultivation as D. strepsiceros. It is now known ...

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