[OGD] More or Less Orchids
With the incidence of extreme weather doubling in the past 30 years due to climate change,it is possible those species considered rare or threatened, will more than likely become more so. In Australia, many of these species areheavily fungal reliant and climate change isoccuring a rate faster than the evolutionary processes of most of these species are able to cope with.The pessimist in me saysthe resultant vegetative changescontributing tothe fungus, will change in perhaps the same manneras the vegetation does in the incidence of too frequent fire. In Australia with our normal Summer bushfires added to the all too frequent Winter burning off, to protect property from Summer fires,willsee some areas with a concentration of fire loving plants as opposed to those native plant species which only need to haveagood normal burn each decade or so, at the correct time.But then again I am a pessimist, with little faith in my fellow human beings to do the right thing at the right time, made worse by the rapidly increasing urbanisation of what is left of our beautiful bush land. Alan W Stephenson Conservation Director Australian Orchid Council ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
Re: [OGD] Orchids Digest, Vol 8, Issue 146
In a message dated 4/24/06 6:02:42 AM, Guido writes: Some plants were named that way because the "namer" could not identify the species or did not know where the plant came from. Like what used to be called Barkeria chinensis. They finally straightened it out in 1989. Iris ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Xylobium palmifolium
Does anyone out there have a good image of Xylobium palmifolium Alan Gregg ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Xylobium palmifolium (Sw.) Benth. ex Fawcett 1993
Alan Gregg asked : ... a good image of Xylobium palmifolium Please see the following references : Birkhauser 1991Orchids from the Botanical Register 1815-1847 [on the internet : http://www.jeandewitte.de/orchidprints/images/Xylobium%20pulmifolium.jpg] Dod, Donald Dungan 1996'Xylobium palmifolium (Sw.) Benth. ex Fawcett 1993' in Bol. Soc. Dominicana Orquideologia 5. (1):56-58. Sprunger, Samuel 1986Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, plate 3981. ** regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] global warming
Be still my heart, could global warming be good? Oh dash it, they will all be under water soon. Buzz ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
