[OGD] in Madagascar

Madagascar... île, trois fois plus grande que la France, a été séparée de l'Inde et de l'Afrique il y a 160 millions d'années... orchidées... Madagascar en possède... 1 200 espèces, pour la plupart endémiques [in which proportion ?] ... les premiers migrants seraient arrivés vers le XIVème

[OGD] what would you do with this plant?

Greetings - Last year I purchased a vandaceous plant; it bloomed shortly thereafter with mutated flowers. I waited to see subsequent flowerings, thinking that perhaps some trauma had caused a one-time glitch. Here in the deep south, USA, these plants bloom pretty often, and after three more

Re: [OGD] what would you do with this plant?

Nancy, Congrats that your are reblooming it! Sounds like you have the right idea. If you are giving the recommended care and others like it do not perform the same, probably is the genetics. Might be worth asking if others who have that one, how they treat it. I for one love fragrance so I might

[OGD] the Fort Pierce Society / Florida (US)

Heathcote Botanical Gardens. ... improvements made to the orchid area. ... in 2007 the Fort Pierce Orchid Society approached Heathcote with the offer to refurbish the orchid house. The Fort Pierce Orchid Society bought and installed a new shade-cloth roof, cleaned, sealed and painted the

Re: [OGD] macchu Picchu speciation

etcetera. One interesting news clipping that I picked up in Lima last month was the following. A detailed study was done on the orchid flora in seven of the relatively level hectares surrounding the M Picchu site, which is of course one of the most visited and most studied places in the

[OGD] Machu Picchu

Speaking with great love of a place I used to practically live in for weeks at a time...It is truly sad if things are the way depicted in the story on your site yesterday..You could not walk around the areas there without stepping on Orchids..How wonderful it was, and hopefully, still is..I

[OGD] Grammatophyllum speciosum / blooming in Malaysia

Watermelon farmer Ariffin Ibrahim... Grammatophyllum speciosum... at his house in Kampung Telaga Papan... bloomed... has yellow petals which are peppered with blots of brown, resembling the tiger's skin... The species, which he planted seven years ago, normally blooms around this time every