I'm in the midst of updating a presentation that I've been doing for a few years for a January Term horticulture class (and other interested persons) on our campus. It covers orchids, xerophytes, and carnivorous plants, but is about 70% about orchids. I like to show diagrams and photos of the primitive orchid genera Apostasia and Neuwiedia, and am wondering if any of the list members know of commercial sources for plants or seeds of species of either of these genera. I think that they would make excellent educational additions to our college greenhouse collection.
While rummaging around the Internet for information on Apostasioids, I ran across this very interesting site that is a checklist of the native orchids of Laos, complete with many photos of rarely-illustrated species: http://www.orchisasia.org/orchids%20list.html One genus that's illustrated is Otostylis, which I hadn't thought about for a long time (it's actually included in a set of gardening encyclopedias from the NY Botanical Garden from the early 60s) - the flowers are striking and quite strange, with an enormously prominent column. Brian O'Brien -- Brian A. O'Brien, Department of Chemistry, Gustavus Adolphus College 800 West College Avenue, Saint Peter, Minnesota 56082 U.S.A. e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. (507)933-7310 fax (507)933-7041 http://www.gustavus.edu/~bobrien _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
