Ophrys speculum f. flavescens
In the latest issue of “Berichte aus den Arbeitskreisen Heimische Orchideen” (27/2, 2010), Klaus Boie presents a rare hypochrome form of Ophrys spec...
Category: literature
Albiflora plants influence naïve pollinators
White-flowered orchid varieties are not just a “freak of nature” – they have quite obviously some biological function. A group of scientists i...
Albiflora orchids in Nepal
I got these photos of Satyrium nepalensis from the botanist Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti in Katmandu who has just published a new book presenting “The Orchids o...
Nigritella bicolor – a new, but well known species
A new species description offers the chance to clarify open questions while studying the alpine Nigritella flora: In the latest edition of the Journal of Europe...
Orchids of the Rhoen region in Germany
A new publication presents a showcase of all the orchids to be found in the Rhoen Region of central Germany. In this book, the author and photographer Marco Klu...
Colour change more common among diploid Dactylorhiza
In an e-mail exchange following his recent article in the Journal Europaeischer Orchideen (JEO), Richard Bateman, orchid specialist at Kew Gardens, wrote me tha...
White flowers as a result of convergent evolution
In an essay about the taxonomic mess with European orchids, Richard Bateman stresses the importance to develop clear criteria for classification instead of indi...
Happy birthday, Charles Darwin!
Today, 200 years ago, Charles Darwin was born – his vivid interest in varieties of animals and plants has led him to the insights of evolution: Species ...
Dactylorhiza traunsteineri
The magazine of the Arbeitskreise Heimische Orchideen (AHO) has an article of Norbert Griebl in its latest edition giving an overview about the Dactylorhiza spe...
Overview on all the orchid genera
The shipment took more than a month but now the book has arrived from Cornell University Press in Ithaca, New York. It’s really intersting, the Illustrate...