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Originally Posted by DaRealKevinGibson
You guys are REALLY KILLING a NEWBIE LIKE ME with the scientific names of these plants!!! I went on Phals.net to get some scientific names but I'm still in the dark. I downloaded some ebook torrents but I haven't read them yet. You guys need to help me REALLY UNDERSTAND what all of this means...I just discovered that my Phal "Lana Del Rey" is what is called a "Da Chien Spider Beauty" what does that even mean? What hybrid is this???
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for the beginning, start with this website, if you do not know it yet:
Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
Than, my main source is Google, there is also other forums, and tuns of books. Recently I purchased amazing Dendrobium and it's relatives, suggested by Bud, and it is absolutely awesome, I can not put it down, reading it before heading the bed every day now. That book helped me to help already others identify the orchids they had no clue what they are. Also, every single day, when I am here on the board and see or read about the orchid I have never ever heard about, I immediately Google it, check the basic info, growing conditions, and if I like it I put it on my list - but to come clean mostly I do find it and buy it immediately:-)))) By checking all the new names immediately you will learn a lot of new species and you will start to be more aware of different orchid families. Plus, you will start to spend much more money, if you become one of us, bitten by huge orchid bug! I did purchase over 70 orchids since I joined orchid board in July:-))))
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Lepanthes nycteris is absolutely amazing, I am getting hooked, after Draculas that I can not grow, and Masdevallias with some mix success I am starting to love Lepanthes family. This one is cold growing, so not for me, but truly amazing, I do get why it travels with you! Oeniella polystachys looks to me like Vanda mix with Brassavola little bit, very cute. Zootrophion dodsonii, another amazing "space" orchid, I admire Trisetella nodulifera for quite some time as well! Stelis congesta is totally new to me, cute mini, and I love love nearly all Pleurothallis. But must say, happy to have at least someone to take the basic care for my orchids when I am gone, I can not imagine to travel with any of them, even in Kawamoto box:-) Great Care Bud!
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