[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:16:43 +0000 >From: K Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [OGD] naming questions >To: <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > >Looking through the most recent AQplus and the most recent Orchid Hybrid List >is see there are 'groups'. I'm familiar with the V coerulea 'pink group' and >'blue group'. I had no idea more groups were in the offing. Gepetto group, >indeed. Is the hybrid registry really going to pay attention to these groups? > And now, according to the AOS webpage, Sophronitis is going into Cattleya and >an x or times sign will preceed all nothogenera. I assume everyone will >ignore these changes and they'll become irrelevant. Alex Maxiamano will be >the only person who'll have to know them so he can put the synonyms into OW. > >I'm sorry. I'm really trying not to rant. But there are times when I really >have to know the "right" name for an orchid and these fluctuations are driving >me batty. Combined with non-registered hybrids (like Den. Emma White) its >sapping all the fun out of being an insufferable know-it-all. We used to >laugh and say that growing orchids and knowing their names was a sure fire way >to stave off Alzheimer's, but I give up. >I guess growing species is the easier road. But no... I take that back... >What's the line from the old movie 'War Games'? The only winning move is not >to play. > >So who has street cred? Will Soph become C? Will it stay that way? Will >these 'groups' be something we need to be famiar with? (Dear God keep them >away from the color forms of L purpurata! or is it Soph purpurata? or C >purpurata...?) > >K Barrett >N Calif, USA >_________________________________________________________________ > > Fortunately almost no-one paid the least attention to their recent several-year trip to la-la land with the sophronitis/laelia and making up all sorts of crazy new names. So I'm thinking no-one will pay any attention to their latest crazy idea. RHS is quickly working their way into irrelevance and if they're not careful they'll soo be the laughingstock of the orchid world - oops! Too late! Already are!!
As for the cattleya re-org I have a feeling and a hope that the sophronitis will eventually be re-removed and we will be left with the benefit of the Brazilian Laelias finally being where they always belonged - in Cattleya! I do hope the hoffmannseggellas (rupicolous laelias) are not amongst those grouped into cattleya in this latest go-round. They do seem clearly different. Tennis Maynard _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
