For some reason I do not seem to have received the Digest with my message in but I am thankful to David, Jay and Mario for their replies. I must stress that I was in no way critical of Jay's or any other site and the photos illustrated. I find sites like this a great boon. Whilst I have the attention of Mario, David and Jay I would like to ask if my plant and Pieter's plant is correctly Maxillaria meleagris then what is the true identity of the plant illustrated in Jay's webiste (I think - sorry Jay if I am wrong!) as Maxillaria meleagris. I have labelled my plant that looks like this as Maxillaria cucullata. How far wrong am I? Another is the plant labelled as Maxillaria phoenicanthera and what does a true Mxillaria punctostriata from Costa Rica look like? Thanks guys for your much appreciated help. In South Africa we do not have experts or facilities to help us identify species and so the maxim/proverb "Onder die blindes, is die een oog koning" (for those who do not understand Amongst the blind people, the partially sighted (die een oog = the person with one eye) is king) is very true. No offence meant to blind peopel Keep well and kind regards Mike
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