Please find below the brief text introducing the EOC 2027 call for papers.
There’s also attached some photos of the Botanical Garden taken during previous events.
Thank you in advance for helping to promote the event!
This is the first in a series of articles intended as an exercise for orchid hybridizers and judges. The article is designed to be published on separate pages, so that one presents the riddle, and the other provides the answer. And, since it contains two different riddles, the article can be published in two batches without any problem.
In addition to being a practical article, it is visual, attractive, and colorful.
An interesting hybridization story, where the smaller parent prevails, giving rise to a beautiful and unexpected Cattleya hybrid.
Sumatra is one of Indonesia’s last refuges of biodiversity, where nature still pulses with a primal force despite the devastating deforestation that has ravaged its forests over the past 50 years. In the province of Aceh, to the north of the island, entire ecosystems still remain intact, protected by impenetrable mountains, waiting to be discovered and admired with the respect and passion they deserve. There are many natural secrets that its lush tropical jungles have kept for thousands of years, and among these treasures, the orchids of Sumatra stand out.
Well, I suppose you would not imagine a Vanilla as the largest (and strongest) parasitic orchid species. Of course, she has her own genus: Erythrorchis.