Volunteer Park Conservatory cycads, and orchids, visitors will find banana ("Musa"), Bird of Paradise ("Strelitzia"), "Anthurium" and ginger (Zingiberaceae) in this house. The conservatory’s orchid collection, which began as a gift from Mrs. Anna H. Clise in 1921, is also found in the Palm House. Orchids are a large and diverse flowering plant family composed of more than 20,000 species. The conservatory’s collection includes representatives of the largest genera – "Bulbophyllum", "Epidendrum", and "Dendrobium" – as well as commonly cultivated genera such as "Cattleya" and "Phalaenopsis". Transporting endangered orchids is prohibited by the Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) and many
Portia labiata the prey is thoroughly stuck. When an insect stuck in a web owned by "P. labiata", "P. schultzi" or any regional variant of "P. fimbriata", and next to a web spider's web, the web spider sometimes enters the "Portia"′s web, and the "Portia" pursues and catches the web spider. When catching an insect outside a web, a "Portia" sometimes lunges and sometimes uses a "pick up", in which it moves its fangs slowly into contact with the prey. In some pick ups, "Portia" first slowly uses its forelegs to manipulate the prey before biting. "P. labiata" and "P. schultzi" also