[OGD] HR
HR send out a catalog with good plants and prices. Write to HR Nurseries Inc, 41-240 Hihimanu St, Waimanalo, Hawaii 96795 Web site is hrnurseries.com They include some pretty pictures with the catalog and you can download them from the site. Gary ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] flower park (Malaysia)
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi... launching the... Taman Seribu Bunga (Thousand Flower Park) in Ayer Keroh... the newly-launched park... is expected to open to the public by the end of August... 5.26ha park... Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam... announced that the park's 1,000th flower species a white hybrid [natural hybrid ?] orchid doritieanopsis [is there such thing as a natural doritaenopsis ?] was named Datuk Seri Utama Jeanne Abdullah after Abdullahs wife. URL : http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_barnes/article2007644.ece * Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] flower park (Malaysia) / URL --- corrected
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi... launching the... Taman Seribu Bunga (Thousand Flower Park) in Ayer Keroh... the newly-launched park... is expected to open to the public by the end of August... 5.26ha park... Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam... announced that the park's 1,000th flower species a white hybrid [natural hybrid ?] orchid doritieanopsis [is there such thing as a natural doritaenopsis ?] was named Datuk Seri Utama Jeanne Abdullah after Abdullahs wife. URL : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/7/1/nation/18185769sec=nation * Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] reading The Orchid Thief / Florida (US)
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean... FAU [Florida Atlantic University] freshmen have been asked to read the book this summer as part of a new program the school hopes will promote communication within the 2,200-student class. ... It's the first time FAU has asked students to read a book before classes begin Aug. 25... getting some lukewarm responses to the voluntary program. ... in the future, the summer reading selection could be part of the freshmen year English curriculum. ... the school has... motive for pushing the book: improving its freshmen retention rate. About 35 percent of FAU's freshmen graduate within six years, according to numbers... compiled last year. At that rate, just 770 of the estimated 2,200 freshmen this fall will graduate. The average six-year graduation rate for Florida's 11 universities is 62 percent. Freshmen can join a discussion about The Orchid Thief through a virtual chat room, where they also will be given... a chance to talk... ith other freshmen and older students acting as mentors. Lee Smith, an FAU senior and mentor in the program, said she thinks the book will offer common ground for students... This will give them a chance to feel like they are part of the group from the beginning, Smith said. Rather than coming in alienated, they can start right from the first day of class and have a group they are already participating with. The book chronicles Laroche's obsession with cloning rare orchids and his recruitment of Seminole Indian Tribe members to help him. He was arrested in 1994 for poaching orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. The book was made into the movie Adaptation in 2002. A committee chose The Orchid Thief because it is set in South Florida and has many elements that could be of interest to students moving to Boca Raton... Orlean is scheduled to speak at FAU's freshmen convocation in August and will sign books at a reception following the event... URL : http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/07/01/s10c_FAUBOOK_0701.html * Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] HR Nurseries
Here you go Iris. http://www.hrnurseries.com/ Buzz Baxter Windsong Orchids ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Doritaenopsis Jeanne Abdullah / it's an hybrid ! (Malaysia)
PM... Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi... at the opening of... Taman Seribu Bunga (Garden of a Thousand Flowers)... was accompanied by his wife Datuk Seri Jeanne Abdullah... The 5.3ha garden... has 126,000 flowering plants... a 30-minute drive from the city [Ayer Keroh] In conjunction with the opening, the countrys first Dorit--e-a[ae]--nopsis orchid hybrid was named after the prime ministers wife... Doriteanopsis j[J]eanne a[A]bdullah... in honour of Jeannes first official visit to the... state. The four [3 ?]-petal orchid has three colours yellow, purple and white and is the offspring of two orchid species [hybrids !], Dorit-ea[ae]-nopsis p[P]urple c[C]hem [Gem ?] and Dorit-is[ae]-nopsis y[Y]ellow. ... The hybrid was registered at the Penang Botanical Garden two weeks ago... Doriteanopsis jeanne abdullah will be registered as the first Doriteanopsis in Asia with the Singapore Botanical Garden, then... with the London Botanical Garden... [why not the Royal Horticultural Society ?] There are about 90 types [genera ?] of orchids in the garden, which opens to the public on Aug 31. URL : http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/National/20070701093755/Article/index_html * Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] H R Nursery
Website link for H R Nursery www.hrnurseries.com/ - Yahoo!7 Mail has just got even bigger and better with unlimited storage on all webmail accounts. Find out more. ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Some questions about names, etc. relating to AOS awards
Hello - This is a multiple-part question, and answers (or theories) about any of it would be appreciated. I guess I will state what I suspect to be true, and those who know can tell me what is so/not so. I'm making up the names! Cattleya Pretty Girl - would this likely be a seedling? Cattleya Pretty Girl 'Dazzling' - a division or mericlone? Would the grex name (is that the right term?) 'Dazzling' lead me to believe that this plant had been awarded by AOS? When I look up Cattleya Pretty Girl in the wildcatt DB, I find that the parents are Cattleya Pretty and Cattleya Girl, and that this cross has been awarded; when I look at the details, I see that Pretty Girl 'Smart', Pretty Girl 'Sassy' and Pretty Girl 'Lovely' all have received some kind of AOS award. If I have just Cattleya Pretty Girl, this has no bearing on my plant, correct? When it blooms, it might be a 'dawg'? Or not? In another case, I look at the tag on my seedling, and I see that the parents are Cattleya Beauty 'Beau' AM/AOS x Cattleya Eye Candy 'Thrilling' AM/AOS - even with awarded parents, does this have any bearing on the seedling itself? Other than high hopes that it will be the best of both parents? Also, regarding showing such a plant - when filling out the tag, does the award pedigree of the parents relate to the (now blooming) offspring in judging? i.e., will it be compared to one/both parents? Or judged on its own merits? Last question: my friend made a cross, but did not register it (lovely to me, but a bow-wow to her). It is still a valid name, correct? Even though not registered? Thanks! Ah, so many questions! Good growing - Nancy ~~~ Il n'existe que deux choses infinies, l'univers et la betise humaine...mais pour l'univers, je n'ai pas de certitude absolue. (Albert Einstein / 1879-1955) ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Allenspark / Colorado (US)
Allenspark... Located... a few miles south of Wild Basin, the southern entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park... woodlands dotted with wildflowers, including... Calypso orchid [Calypso bulbosa] and the coral-spotted root orchid [Corallorrhiza maculata]. URL : http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6264623?source=rss * Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Revolutionary CITES proposal for nursery certification.
If possible It would be nice to keep this post up for one week to allow people to see it and comment. CITES proposal for nursery certification, By Jerry Lee Fischer 07,01,07 To all interested in the subject of Orchid species and hybrids as imports or exports, Recent changes in CITES requirements have made it difficult for nurseries, and hobbyists alike to not only import plants from foreign countries directly but even acquire them from nurseries in the country in which hobbyists and professional growers live. In the US for example the requirements are that a nursery must now have a master permit. Every plant to be exported whether it is a species or hybrid must be approved by the US Fish and Wildlife authorities with information on the propagation methods (whether from seed, cuttings or cloning techniques) if not then whom the plants were purchased from with receipts, pot sizes of plants in stock, annual production, number of plants to be exported each year, whether parental stock is maintained and how many, from seed or cuttings etc. and number of years in production. Imagine filling out such a permit (in my case it took 250 hours) and then imagine it taking 9 months to a year to get it. The idea is that once you get this permit single issue copies are purchased in advance and the nursery owner can fill them out when orders are received and ship them out rather quickly compared to the old system of waiting 3-6 months for a single use permit. In the mean time orders cannot be processed and commercial growers are put in situation of economic hardship. Adding any new plants to your permit requires all the same detailed information, costs a lot and there is no guarantee that the permits will arrive in a timely manner. Several US growers have given up on exports and many more will follow suit. Hybrids have become another problem, as one has to either be approved for specific hybrids on the master permit or have to be approved for specific species that make up the hybrid. At the moment you have to list on your permit the species that make up the hybrids that you want to export. This takes a great deal of time and is really counterproductive. It often requires 20 to 35 hours to complete a permit. The US Fish and Wildlife service has come up with a way of amending your permit to accept hybrids but it still requires reporting and is limited to certain hybrids. The various countries management authorities and CITES officials are, I believe unaware of the great advances in the laboratory production of orchids that have taken place within the past few years. Nurseries are now able to reproduce in reasonable numbers those plants that were once considered difficult or even impossible to produce. The continued over-regulation of artificially propagated plants and the nurseries that produce them is in my opinion a complete waste of CITES resources. The entire reason CITES was created in the first place was to protect wild populations of living organisms that were threatened by trade. This is what it says in the first paragraph on http://www.cites.org/www.cites.org home page, CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. If anything the rapid artificial production and propagation of orchid plants helps to ensure that wild stock will remain where it is. Many of our nurseries are really no longer trading in wild stock at all. Why over-regulate it? Recent examples of how things have changed can be found in PERU where no wild collecting for export is allowed. All plants must now be produced at the approved nurseries from seed or division of established stock. Phragmipedium kovachii would never have been allowed for export legally except for the work of serious nursery owners and the Peruvian government. By allowing a few plants to be collected and used for seed propagation via tissue culture these plants are now all over the world and the demand for wild plants no longer exists. Other countries like Ecuador and Brazil are following suit. If continued restriction and over-regulation continues in its present state there will be less and less plants available and eventually the hobby itself will be threatened. Orchid Societies memberships would begin to decline, as there would be no new plant material for hobbyists to be interested in. Nurseries interested in growing and exporting species or hybrids have already declined in The US and other parts of the globe. The process or acquiring export permits has become so onerous that some nurseries have chosen to give up their export business. Many without the ability to export will not survive. There is an important synergy between Orchid Societies, hobbyists and
Re: [OGD] H R
Thanks. However, I was looking for an E-MAIL ADDRESS, which does not exist on their Web Site. Iris ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Zygopetalum Species Identification
I have some Zygopetalum species that were not correctly identified by the supplier. Will someone please give me the accepted reference(s) for determining my plants ID? I want to have references and dissecting tools in place! Time's a-wastin'! --Stitz-- ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Orchid Society of Pakistan
President of the Orchid Society of Pakistan, Razia Aizazuddin... started growing orchids 40 years ago... She once picked up a small pot of an apparently withered plant... she... repotted it, crushed Naphthalene (Camphor balls) and placed a few pinches of these in the pot along with water for a few days. Within five days, her experiment resulted in the plant's miraculous recovery and she succeeded in learning a new way to save dying orchids. ... The society holds meetings every second month, arranges seminars, excursions and takes part in the annual flower show after which it takes out its annual newsletter... Aizazuddin believes that coco chip and charcoal suit orchids best... the Orchid Society of Pakistan was formed in 1997... it now has more than 100 members URL : http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=62731 * Regards, VB ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Revolutionary CITES proposal for nursery certification
Jerry Lee Fischer who said: The CITES treaty clearly states that any and all orchid seedlings traded in vitro are exempt from CITES regulations as long as a phyto accompanies them. Jerry I do not believe what you say is totally accurate. It is my understanding that besides sterile in-vitro certification, phytosanitary documents as you mention, there is another requirement for Appendix I orchid seedlings in-vitro crossing International borders. CITES Appendix 1 orchid species seedlings in-vitro must have been Artificially Propagated from seeds of legally collected parents.(A.P.as per CITES definition) Example: In the case of Phragmipedium kovachii this is taken care of if the Pk in-vitro orchid seedlings were obtained from an INRENA licensed Pk nursery like Centro de Jardineria Manrique, who's INRENA Pk collecting permit # is 001. However, if an INRENA registered Pk nursery uses seeds from plants other than the legally collected ones, the in-vitro seedlings are illegal. Finally, I believe we may conclude that CITES Appendix I orchid seedlings in-vitro, are illegal, if propagated from illegal plants, or obtained from a nursery not licensed to AP propagate the CITES Appendix I species. peter ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
[OGD] Revolutionary CITES proposal for nursery certification.
Hi Jerry. Regarding your two Revolutionary CITES proposals for nursery certification: Your Proposal #1. I'm not going to comment, not because I have no opinions, but because I'd rather focus on your Your Proposal #2. Certify nurseries that are truly growing, or buying for resale orchids that are artificially propagated. This provision already exists under CITES. Go to the CITES homepage at: http://www.cites.org/ and type Registered nurseries into their search engine. I got 107 hits. The key document is Conf. 9.19 (Rev. CoP13) Guidelines for the registration of nurseries exporting artificially propagated specimens of Appendix-I species, which is at: http://www.cites.org/eng/res/all/09/E09-19R13.pdf This document says you can already do exactly what your Proposal 2 suggests, at least for Appendix 1 plants. A list of registered nurseries is provided at: http://www.cites.org/common/reg/nu/e-nu-beg.shtml When last updated, there were 101 CITES-registered nurseries, the majority being in India. I see that the Moreno's Colomborquideas nursery in Colombia is CITES registered (Number P-CO-1001). The number of registered nurseries in the USA is zero. I strongly suspect the reason for this astonishing low number can be found in the 3rd paragraph on the right-side column of the 1st page of the summary document on: http://www.cites.org/eng/cop/09/doc/E9-Doc-30-32.pdf which says It may therefore very well be that the Management Authority of a country of origin does not wish to introduce such a facilitation. Yes, CITES gave the US Management Authority the right to refuse registration of US nurseries. Jerry, I think you are proposing to address the wrong people. Instead of petitioning CITES in Geneva, you should talk to your local representatives (ie, in the USA) about registering your nursery under the existing CITES provisions. Good luck. Peter O'Byrne Still under a rock in Singapore ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
