“Orchideeën van de Benelux”
Turkey, Rhodes, Cyprus, Crimea – those are only some of the books about locations of orchids published by Karel Kreutz since 1998. Now he has presented a ...
Category: conferences
Orchid conference in Neumuehl: Rescue mission in Switzerland
An unusual rescue mission in the canton Zurich was subject of the 2018 orchids conference in Kehl-Neumuehl, Germany. In this Swiss region, nutrient-poor grassla...
Trip reports and expert debates
After 21 years, the Orchid Conference of Sundheim, Germany, has found a new place: About 50 participants met in Kehl-Neumuehl in the beginning of October, in a ...
orchids conference in Sundheim 2: Floral photosynthesis
Why are Ophrys flowers with a defect in pigment production yellowish-greenish and not white as it’s the case with Orchis, Dactylorhiza or other genera? I&...
orchids conference in Sundheim 1: From Odenwald to Iran
The 20th conference of orchid experts in Kehl-Sundheim invited its participants to a long journey: The lectures had a broad range from the German regions of Ode...
Sundheim Orchid Conference 2012
Two great publication projects about European orchids are being prepared which will meet high expectations. At the 16th Orchid Conference in Sundheim (near Kehl...
Lecturing about albiflora orchids in Koblenz
Invited by the Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen (AHO) Rhineland-Palatinate I’ve presented some thoughts about albiflora orchids at a meeting in Koblenz. A...
Exhibition in Frankfurt demonstrates color in nature
“The palette of colors in nature is almost infinite”, says the botanist Hilke Steinecke of the Palmengarten in Frankfurt. There, this palette is dis...