The book ‘Demystifying Orchid Pollination’ by Adam Karremans was published in Spring 2023 by Kew Gardens. Well-written and well-illustrated, the book is a treasure trove of how orchids and their pollinators interact. The book is based on scientific findings of the last two centuries, but written for a broad public. Unique feature of the book: QR Codes that give access to videos of orchids being pollinated.
If you really want to find something precious that nobody else has ever seen before, or at least not scientifically documented as a new orchid species, it can pay off to study maps of remote areas in faraway countries. Peru has still a lot to offer in that regard. This country has been searched through for a couple of centuries by professional plant hunters, looking for just that unique plant that would bring a lot of fame and fortune for their employers.
How to identify and control mealybugs, which are one of the main pests faced by orchid growers.
What is a genus? That is the question that must be answered before we can explain what happened to Coelogyne, or rather, what happened to Dendrochilum. It is best to start our explanation with an example. Take the genus Cattleya. The first Cattleya to be described was C. labiata. A reasonable guess is that everything that looks like C. labiata is a Cattleya. That means that it should have large, floppy, pinkish-purple flowers with broad petals and a trumpet-shaped lip.
Seventeen years after volume 1, but only two years after volume 2, there is now the concluding volume 3. Together, this series makes Costa Rican orchids the best studied in the neotropics, thanks to the scientists at Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica, where the lead author served as the director of research for twenty years. Twelve co-authors contributed to the various articles in the book.
Corybas is a genus that consists of approximately 120 small terrestrial orchid species. They occur from the foothills of the Himalayas and Southern China, throughout South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, to islands near Antarctica and in the Pacific Ocean. Some species belong to the most southern growing orchids.