In a message dated 1/23/05 3:01:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"I recently obtained a couple of phrag. bessae, d'allessandro and hybrids. Now
one of them is flowering and the flower is totally misshapen: the petals are
concave and the pouch cannot separate. I posted a pic
http://www.orchidswa.org.au/
A visit will give you a chance to see the unique WA native orchids at their
blooming best.
And for a preview of WA's native orchids, see the url below.
The Species Orchid Society of Western Australia (Inc)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~emntee/page18.html
Tony
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Ron,
The time from flask to flowering for a Paph. rothschildianum will
depend a lot on the parents of the flask. Some parents are very good
at producing seedlings that will rapidly grow and bloom, while others
seem to insure a very reluctant grower and bloomer. I find that
seedlings with Paph.
Hello everyone,
I have a Bulb. frostii and a fraudulentum that simply refuse to bloom.
Is there any trick to handling either of these two? They're currently
growing under fluorescent lights in roughly intermediate conditions.
They used to be mounted, but I recently moved them to shallow pans of
s
The Cymbidium Society of America will hold its 30th Cymbidium Congress
Saturday March 5th in Santa Barbara. Its webpage didn't have current
information (as of Saturday 1/22), but other messages here talking about
speaker line ups reminded me of the CSA's line up. They will have Hadley
Cash ta
The Cymbidium Society of America will hold its 30th Cymbidium Congress
Saturday March 5th in Santa Barbara. Its webpage didn't have current
information (as of Saturday 1/22), but other messages here talking about
speaker line ups reminded me of the CSA's line up. They will have Hadley
Cash ta
FYI :
"Prasartporn Smitamana has for several decades devoted himself to breeding
new species of hybrid orchids. He also plays a dynamic role in keeping
indigenous species alive and flourishing in their original habitats across
the northern region.
...
Prasartporn is an orchid breeder and direct
Thanks, Charles, for your suggestion (putting a blackout on current issues
and only making back issues after a certain embargo time has passed
available on the web for all to use). Actually, this is commonly used in
academic publications (see Highwire Press from Stanford as one example).
And
Dear OGD's
I have been hard at working on expanding the Internet Orchid Species
Photo Encyclopedia
www.orchidspecies.com.
I am just about to eclipse 5000 species in 540 genera.
I need some help with the genus Masdevallia with which I have 250
difrernt species represented on IOSPE. The references
Jay :
For some of the species you listed I have references which, hopefully, you
will find useful :
1) Masdevallia corniculata Rchb. f. 1878 :
Orchids and Ecology in Colombia, To the Rescue of Paradise, [p. 238].
Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Orchids, p. 283.
Monographie der Gattungen Masdevallia,p
I do not grow many phrags, but for what it is worth, I had a
Phrag. Eric Young which would regularly bloom with the first flower having no
petals, but the rest of the flowers being just fine. It got to the point that
I just ignored the first one, as I knew the next one would be just fine.
Jim Pupelis, a well-known paph grower in the Chicago area some 10 to 15
years ago, potted out a flask of roths. The most precocious of the
seedlings bloomed 3 1/2 years later. Jum gave it the clonal name "Three
and a half" and it remains a conversation item to this day. I traded for
a sib f
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