Steve, if Colin had called the language "Tok Pisin" I'd have said nothing, since that's what they call it in the Mosbi markets.
Have fun in Hula. It used to be nice easy drive with good young coconuts on sale at the roadside. There were a pair of frogmouths on a treebranch directly above one of the coconut stalls.... the first time I actually set eyes on the elusive creatures. Check out the paper-bark trees in the savannah some way uphill from Hula village ... D. carronii used to be quite easy to find there. Please make sure you leave a good number behind on the trees; while they grow happily in-situ, they are extremely hard to cultivate in Mosbi, and any that you collect are likely to be dead inside 18 months. Cautions: The seasonally-inundated grassland areas are full of those horrid near-invisible ticks that burrow into your skin at your waist and set you on fire for the next week. I found spraying "Baygon" or "Mortein" (or some similar industrial-strength insecticide) on my shoes, socks, trousers, legs and shirt was a great help in reducing the infestations. Depends how much you value your skin. Oh, and watch out for snakes near the rocky areas. I never saw any D. canaliculatum at Hula. I wonder if the plants Andree Millar mentioned were actually D. carronii.... it is quite easy to confuse the two. Lukim yu, Peter O'Byrne _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
