Orchidiocy – an incurable passion for wild orchids. PHD.
If a passion for orchids ever grips you then you have to learn to accept ‘failure’ as an integral part of the fascination (even obsession) that finding such capricious creatures engenders.
I have heard lovers of orchids described in English both as Orchidomanes and Orchidophiles – the epithet is a tad ambiguous since the name orchid [...]