[OGD] Re: Ida portillae

Eric, I checked the Kew's Monocotyledon World Checklist and there is no reference either. Since the checklist can be a year behind in listing and placing the published names , I continued my search. This is what I found: The judges of the the AOS Toronto Judging Centre granted on

RE: [OGD] Re: Ida portillae

Jose and Eric, check with Ecuagenera. They are finding, describing and naming new species, and many of them carry the 'portillae' name. They may have more information on it. It may be too new to be in any of the previously existing literature. li'l frog -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[OGD] quarry query

someone wrote : posting about the orchids in the Leeds quarry... details have been reduced to dust in cyberspace Here is again thje link to the news story [Nature fears over plan to transform a disused quarry -- 'Rare plants at risk' ]

[OGD] collecting in the wild

in a news story published today : Bob Fuchs, owner of R.F. Orchids, guides orchid trips to the same region [Southeast Asia]. Leona Bee, long in the orchid travel business, is retiring after a final trip to the World Orchid Conference in Dijon, France, in March. ... Fuchs learned the travel

[OGD] Orchid genus name listings on the London Orchid Society website

Last year I announced the genus names listings I have on our website at http://los.lon.imag.net/MiscFile.asp I have now updated the listings. There are five listings in total, three from Julian Shaw (the RHS orchid registrar) and two that I have created over the years Julian's listings were

[OGD] Miltonia 'cele hinsdale'

I'm helping a friend learn about the intricacies of classification by tracking down the ancestry of Miltonia 'Cele Hinsdale' (purchased at Hausermann's) I must have picked a bad example because I've gotten nowhere at the RHS website or anywhere else I tried. (I'm assuming this is actually a

[OGD] Miltonia Celle 'Hinsdale'

David [Wujek] : You wrote : Miltonia 'cele hinsdale'... purchased at Hausermann's... In his most useful database, our colleague, Bob Betts has the following references for that hybrid : Orchids by Hausermann - 1997 catalogue, page 11 Orchids by Hausermann - 1999 catalogue, page 11 see :

[OGD] Ida portillae

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:39:05 -0800 From: Eric Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OGD] Need references for Ida portillae To: OrchidGuide Digest orchids@orchidguide.com Hi, At the Pacific Orchid Exposition in San Francisco last weekend, I photographed this stunning

[OGD] orchid raid in Malaysia

FYI : TAIPING A raid by Agriculture Department officials last Friday... they confiscated 14 boxes of orchids... the officers ... thinking that the plants, worth about RM7,000, had been smuggled in from Thailand. Baharudin Kamaruzaman, 33, said the orchids were locally grown. He believed the