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Tag: Evolution

field trips

The dynamics of evolution on the Dactylorhiza meadow

Posted on 8. June 2017

Seven years after my first observations on a meadow in the valley of the small river Bieber in the northern region of the Spessart mountains I visit this specia...

field trips

Albiflora abundance on Sardinia

Posted on 28. May 2017

There are two forms of albiflora mutations with orchids: the spontaneous growth of a white-flowered form as the consequence of a genetical defect in the process...

literature

Orchids are not a young plant family at all

Posted on 9. September 2012

In a paper published in the latest edition of the Journal Europaeischer Orchideen (vol 44, 2/2012, p. 421-426), Wolfgang Wucherpfennig reviews the recent public...

literature

Snap-shot of the evolution: preliminary report of albiflora studies

Posted on 9. August 2012

Thanks to all the contributions to this project website albiflora.eu I’ve compiled a first paper about the white-coloured forms of orchids, published in B...

field trips

Three albino plants of Cephalanthera damasonium

Posted on 18. June 2012

It is well studied that Cephalanthera damasonium belongs to those orchids which can live without chlorophyllum – together with other species of the tribe ...

conferences

Lecturing about albiflora orchids in Koblenz

Posted on 19. February 2012

Invited by the Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen (AHO) Rhineland-Palatinate I’ve presented some thoughts about albiflora orchids at a meeting in Koblenz. A...

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Richard Bateman on stability and change

Posted on 6. November 2011

Still looking for any hints to shed some light on the albiflora phenomenon, I visited Richard Bateman in London. The white-flowered morphs “are of greates...

literature

Colour influences pollinator behaviour

Posted on 1. May 2011

Form and function of the flower organs are the main focus of the new fascinating book The Flower of the European Orchid by Jean Claessens and Jacques Kleynen. I...

literature

Albiflora plants influence naïve pollinators

Posted on 7. September 2010

White-flowered orchid varieties are not just a “freak of nature” – they have quite obviously some biological function. A group of scientists i...

literature

Colour change more common among diploid Dactylorhiza

Posted on 18. October 2009

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...

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