“Everyone hears ‘rescue centre’ and they imagine an emergency room with beeping monitors and IV bags,” says Marc Hachadourian, the bearded and jovial director of glasshouse horticulture and senior curator of orchids at the NYBG. When trafficked plants are seized by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, they are sent to the NYBG and other botanical gardens to be restored to health. Commodities that desirable have an inevitable dark side – and among the fragrant pedigree dendrobiums at the orchid show are a few plants that are more like strays: orchids rescued from the black-market trade in rare and exotic plants, rehabilitated by the New York Botanical Garden in its lesser-known role as a plant rescue centre. Orchids are a billion-dollar business global exports of live orchids were estimated to be $2.51bn a year between 20. A Phalaenopsis schilleriana orchid, once part of a Cites shipment to the New York Botanical Garden, in bloom again.
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