Coryanthes...I have collected them in bloom right on the Amazon River in Peru...They bloomed above the water on trees with little shade and on branches right over the river. Blooms pendant..Those plants have far stronger stems than in the greenhouse..Bill Bergstrom
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:01:39 -1000 >Send Orchids mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Orchids digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. The alternates. (Andy Easton) > 2. Coryanthes in nature? > 3. Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 317 > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 09:32:14 -0400 >From: "Andy Easton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [OGD] The alternates. >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: list >Reply-To: "the OrchidGuide Digest \(OGD\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message: 1 > >Mr. Bronstein continues as he has been in all the time I have known him, as >the dollar each way candidate. He claims to his fellow executive members >that he wishes only the best for the AOS and then he would appear to be >quite happy for his name to be part of a small group that are attacking the >entire AOS organizational structure. A personality, who in my experience, >inevitably seems to be on both side of every argument. As for all this talk >about his award program: ask some of the people who use it. It is really >quite basic with a number of flaws. At least I and a number of other users >have found it less than helpful. What the AOS needs right now is strong and >prudent financial management combined with an optimistic vision for the >future. That is what it is getting from experienced financial minds like >Roger Brown, from leading plant scientists like Dr. Rob Griesbach and from >approachable and inclusive people like Art Moore. If all this wasted effort >had just been applied to the task at hand just imagine how much further >forward the organization would be right now! > >Andy Easton >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 16:14:45 -0400 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [OGD] Coryanthes in nature? >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Precedence: list >Reply-To: "the OrchidGuide Digest \(OGD\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message: 2 > >Warning: Actual on-topic orchid-related text below... > >Has anyone on the list ever seen Coryanthes species blooming in nature? I am curious >to know the orientation of the plant and inflorescence. I am currently growing two >Coryanthes species (C. elegantium and C. thivii). Both species produce an >inflorescence that grows out from the plant horizontally or partially erect. If I >negelect to stake the inflorescence the weight of the flowers breaks it. How do they >avoid this problem in the wild? Since Coryanthes are ant-garden plants, I imagine >that they would often grow on top of horizontal branches. In that case, a plant in a >basket would be in approximately the same orientation as a wild plant. > >So how do they do it? > >Nick >-- >Nicholas Plummer >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 22:44:37 EDT >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [OGD] Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 317 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: list >Reply-To: "the OrchidGuide Digest \(OGD\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message: 3 > >Re Kathy Figiel and the AOS proxy: >Kathy, if you are right that the AOS ballot, unlike every other >shareholders' ballot I recall ever having seen, does not have a line giving the >shareholders or members an option to "vote against all of the above nominees" as well >as >another option to vote against individual nominees, then the AOS election >process is a travesty. Why have an election if the voters have no possibility of >affecting the outcome? I hope you are wrong. David Grove >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids > > >End of Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 318 >*************************************** > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via web mail at hialoha.net
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