"John Klinger... orchid... had won a Certificate of Horticultural Merit at the Rogue Valley Orchid Show in Medford in mid April... according to... Carl Luer... Klinger's orchid was a new species that had not been identified and named until now.
"... Luer said... with my permission he'd like to name the orchid after me," Klinger said. ... the miniature orchid was officially labeled "t[T]risetella klingerii."... t[T]risetella klingerii stands almost 2 inches tall and features a burgundy-hued flower that is... about one-quarter-inch long. ... it's not hirtzii because its antenna is about an eighth of an inch longer and the hue of the flower is different. John Klinger... His greenhouse at his home in Green has around 750 plants. ... Klinger acquired his new orchid through an Internet purchase from Pepe Portilla, a businessman in Ecuador... The orchid enthusiast, a Roseburg Forest Products employee who retired in April 2003, had about 750 orchid plants in his greenhouse earlier this year. ... while out of town in late April, the climate control system in his greenhouse malfunctioned and the temperature was at 110 degrees for a couple of days. About 250 plants died, but the trisetella klingerii survived. ... Klinger first developed an interest in orchids when he was a teenager... Klinger collected the plants for several years... He... returned to his hobby about 25 years ago and has been adding plants to his growing collection ever since. He is a member and past president of the Umpqua Orchid Society... Members of that 40-person group have been giving Klinger some plants to help replace some of the plants that died in the April heating malfunction." URL : http://www.newsreview.info/article/20070827/NEWS/70827045 photo : [caption : John Klinger learned his orchid, which won a Certificate of Horticultural Merit at the Rogue Valley Orchid Show in Medford in mid April, was not a t[T]risetella hirtzii as he had thought. The orchid is a new species that had not been identified until now. It has been named after Klinger.] http://nrimg.sv.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=NR&Date=20070827&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=70827045&Ref=AR&MaxW=550&title=1 *************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
