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Lots of good stuff coming in to the Digest on
Phrags..I might add a bit more to conclude my thoughts on the matter. I,
in the good old days, never over collected any orchids, and loathed those that
did or do...I cannot imagine why anyone would collect Besseae any longer..It
strikes me as stupid and unwarrented...In certain areas I saw reticulatum and
the rest of the Phrags in its section, growing cheek to jowel for miles on
end..Honestly...I pray they still do..The plants in this section grow on the
ground..or down cliffs..but the vast majority that I saw were flat on the ground
and thriving..no natural pests (except collectors) you could not work a
foot with out stepping on them..(in Peru) I will not ever say where..and
they grew on the same cliff where Besseae was first discovered..It did not take
long for the Orchid Tour people to locate that place..ripple sole tennis shoe
traces were all over the face of that cliff when we visited..and
interestingly..no plants but boissierianum could be found DOWN the cliff below
the road..Strange..but true..we used rope and investigated all the area
below...I doubt that more than two other areas in Peru were found where Besseae
grows or grew..lots more in Ecuador...Bill Bergstrom
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