"Max Hopkinson's... collection... has 800 individual plants... between two and three hundred species.
Max, chairman of the East Midlands Orchid Society, principally collects the Catasetum genus... His is one... of National Collections of orchids. ... the British Isles has about 35 different native species. ... Notts is... home to the International Orchid Register. The register... a record of all [if registered !]... orchid hybrids cultivated across the globe - the first was in 1854. The register is now based in Stapleford. Registrar Julian Shaw said: "There are about 130 thousand registered..." More than 3,000 new hybrids are added annually... the ones people choose to register. "On a quiet day I might get one or two [registrations], or in a busy day, over a hundred. The most I've had in a month is 500," says Julian." URL : http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=134487&command=displayContent&sourceNode=134482&contentPK=19125250&folderPk=78489&pNodeId=134461 photo : http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/shared/contentbinaries/publish/1861018.jpg ************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
