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 occasionally jump on an insect. However, "Portia"s are not very good at catching moving insects and often ignore them, while some other salticid genera, especially the quick, agile "Brettus" and "Cyrba", perform well against small insects. When a "Portia" stalks another jumping spider, the prey generally faces the "Portia" and then either runs away or displays as it does to another member of its own species. The webs of spiders on which "Portia"s prey sometimes contain dead insects and other arthropods which are uneaten or partly eaten. "P. labiata" and some other "Portia"s such as "P. fimbriata" (in Queensland) and