Can anybody please help with contact details for: Anthony Lamb Rapee Sagarik Promila Pathak and Jason Fisher we would like to contact them as possible speakers at the 2009 South African National Conference and show. If you can help please send their details to me personally at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks very much Hennie
----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:00:01 PM Subject: Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 154 Send Orchids mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com 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. Wildlife set for final victory along the Iron Curtain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2. Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 153 (James Watts) 3. Dendrophylax in the Cayman Islands ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:32:50 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OGD] Wildlife set for final victory along the Iron Curtain To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed But this no-man's-land of old was also home to an astonishing variety of wildlife that flourished where the barrier separating communist east from capitalist west stood.If plans stay on course and the political will is backed with financial resources, the Iron Curtain trail could become one of the longest nature reserves on earth. The former border is part of a European green belt 4,200 miles long. If the European Union gets its way, the entire interlinking nature reserves will stretch for 4,250 miles, starting at the Arctic Sea, running along Finland's border with Russia, through the Baltic states and Poland to Germany, then skirt Austria's border with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary before following the Danube to the Black Sea. Heron colonies, otters, the black stork and the lady's slipper orchid can be found. Rare moss grows on the concrete stumps that once housed automatic guns, bats nest in the remains of bunkers and watchtowers and rare egrets, warblers and other species delight nature lovers from around the world. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/wildlife-set-for-final-victory-along-the-iron-curtain-832856.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 23:13:22 +0000 From: James Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [OGD] Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 153 To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > From: Nicholas Plummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Correct me if I am wrong, but in > the context of the> Cayman Islands, I think "wild banana orchid" means> > Myrmecophila thomsoniana and "ghost orchid" means> Dendrophylax fawcettii. Probably Dendrophylax sallei, although some say sallei from the Caymans is a synonym of lindenii from Florida and Cuba, just a distint population. jimwatts _________________________________________________________________ E-mail for the greater good. Join the i?m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 22:43:47 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OGD] Dendrophylax in the Cayman Islands To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Nicholas Plummer wrote : "in the context of the Cayman Islands, I think... "ghost orchid" means Dendrophylax fawcettii." James Watts wrote : "Probably Dendrophylax sallei" In a post to the OGD, 9 May 2008, one could read : "the Ghost Orchid (Dendrophylax fawcettii), is native only to Grand Cayman and should not be mixed up with a similarly named, more commonly known, but extremely rare, orchid that grows in Florida. The Ghost Orchid is an epiphytic plant that consists of grayish-green roots from which... creamy white flowers emerge in May and June. The orchid is devoid of leaves and when in flower, emits a... fragrance that attracts moths to pollinate in the late evenings." see : http://orchidguide.com/pipermail/orchids_orchidguide.com/2008-May/008922.html ************* Regards, Viateur ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com End of Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 154 **************************************** _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
