External Orchid links

 

ON-LINE ORCHID REFERENCES
(taxonomy / cultivation / history / …) :


Orchid WWWeb Encyclopedia

Orchidata (Brazil)

Orchideeën (dutch)

The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew official site

 

 

 

Orchid Research Newsletter (RBG Kew):

Directory listing of Orchid Genera ( 420+ genera of the Americas and Europe) :

Fragrant Orchids

The Orchid House

Guide to exhibiting orchids (from The O zone)
 

Sanders searches (from Venger’s Orchids)

What if they mated ? (interactive guide on primary hybrids)

Orchid flasking (Barry Gardner, Australia)

in vitro propagation of orchids (including terrestrials)
 

Lotte & Thomas Orchids (in vitro propagation of orchids)
 
Highlights of Orchid History : by R. Rigby

A Sampler of Culture Sheets and Articles by Charles and Margaret Baker

 
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ORCHIDS PICTURES & PHOTO SITES

OrchidMania species in bloom

Orchid photo tips (Pictures by Greg Allikas, text by Ned Nash) :

Orchidorama (Elisabeth & Jean-Claude George, France) : http://www.ifrance.com/Orchidorama/ACCUEIL2.htm

The Orchidmall photo site : http://www.orchidmall.com/fotosite.htm

Orkology : http://www.key.net.au/~orkology/Orkology/orx0001.htm

Wild flowers pictures (Thomas Kornack),including North American Orchidaceae : http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~tkorn/wildflowers/index.html

Orchidguide (Akerne Orchids) : http://www.orchidguide.com/genera/images.htm

Orchid Photo pages : http://www.orchidworks.com/

Geoffrey Hands (UK): http://www.users.waitrose.com/~orchids/

Photo gallery (Venger’s Orchids) : http://www.vengers.com/photos/vengers.htm

Orchid Photo Album (SyuTyuSen, Japan): http://www.edit.ne.jp/~fkoichi/mokuji.htm

Orchid collection (Wolfgang Renner, Germany) : http://orchideensammlung.de/orchideen-orchids-allgemein/orchids-orchideen.htm

Photo gallery (many Catasetinae) (Barry Gardner, Australia) : http://members.iinet.net.au/~barryg/Photo_Gallery.htm

Photo gallery (Wolfgang Wiesner, Austria) : http://www.wowi.at/index.htm , http://www.wowi.at/index.html
 
 
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ORCHID PERIODICALS / JOURNALS

List of journals : http://www.orchidmall.com/general/periodic.htm
 
The Orchid Review : http://www.rhs.org.uk/about/mn_pubs_journals_orchid.asp

The Orchid Digest: http://www.orchiddigest.com/

Orchids (formerly AOS bulletin, American Orchid Society) : http://www.orchidweb.org/

Oasis, The Journal (Australia) : http://welcome.to/oasis_journal

Orchid News (Brazil, Delfina de Araujo) : http://www.orchidnews.hpg.com.br/on/deposito.htm

Orchid tools for your website: http://www.orchids.iastate.edu/

 
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BIODIVERSITY & ECOSYSTEMS (INCLUDING ORCHID)

Borneo / Mont Kinabalu

Costa-Rica biodiversity: http://www.inbio.ac.cr/

Flora of Suriname : http://www.mjjsales.com/articles/tropical-rainforest-suriname.html

Brazil (Plants of -, including orchids) : http://brazil-plants.webjump.com/
 
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PLANTS REFERENCES (General) & LINKS

International association for Plant taxonomy : http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/iapt/registration/

International Organisation for Plant Information : http://iopi.csu.edu.au/iopi/

International Plant Name Index : http://www.ipni.org/searches/query_ipni.shtml

Internet directory of Botany: http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botmenu.html

Provisional Global Plant Checklist : http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/IOPI/GPC/

American Horticultural Society : http://www.ahs.org/

Andean Botanical Information System - the Field Museum, Chicago, Il http://www.sacha.org/

W3Tropicos - the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos)nomenclatural database: http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/pick.html

The GardenWeb glossary of botanic terms: http://www.gardenweb.com/glossary/

The GardenWeb Plant Database : http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/

A glossary of botanical terms: http://www.orchidlady.com/glossary.html

Dictionary of botanical epithets : http://www.winternet.com/~chuckg/dictionary.html

Botanical Latin translation (Latin English and English Latin) : http://members.aol.com/magarland/botlat/botlata.htm
Pronouncing botanical Latin :http://www.telp.com/gardening/latin.htm
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid : http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm


CITES homepage : http://www.wcmc.org.uk/CITES/eng/index.shtml
 

Plant pathology online (Thorsten Kraska, University of Bonn, Germany) : http://www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/extern/ppigb/ppigb.htm

Plant pathology websites : http://www.sdstate.edu/~wpsc/http/ps333lnk.html

Plant virus online: http://biology.anu.edu.au/Groups/MES/vide/refs.htm

Biological Pest control : http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/biocontrol/2a.htm

Cinnamite (Mycotech.com) : http://www.mycotech.com/

Natural Pest Control : http://www.natpestco.com/index2.html

More Botanical bookmarks: http://www.graylab.ac.uk/usr/hodgkiss/botanic.html

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BOTANIC GARDENS

Directory of Arboreta, Botanical Gardens, Gardens, Herbariums: http://www.gardenscape.com/GSGardens.html
 
 

Australia :

Australian National Botanic Gardens : http://155.187.10.12/anbg/index.html

Belgium

National Botanic Garden of Belgium: http://www.br.fgov.be/

Observatoire du monde des Plantes (University of Liège) : http://www.ulg.ac.be/musees/omp/

France :

Conservatoire du Begonia Rochefort sur mer : http://www.ville-rochefort.fr/index.htm

Jardin Botanique de Nancy : http://uhp.u-nancy.fr/UHP/Jardin-Botanique/accueil2.html

Germany :

Berlin Botanic Garden : http://bgbm3.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/BGBM/

Hannover (Herrenhäuser Gärten) : http://www.hannover.de/deutsch/kultur/nah_park/herrenh.htm

Heidelberg Botanischer Garten (in German) :  http://www.botgart.uni-hd.de/public/index.htm

Munich Botanic Garden : http://www.botanik.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/botgart/e/view/friends.html

Stuttgard (Wilhelma, Zoo & Botanical Garden): http://www.stgt.com/extern/wilhelma.htm

Netherlands:

Botanic Garden Utrecht: http://www.bio.uu.nl/botgard/

De Hortus Botanicus in de Plantage (Amsterdam) : http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/pf_triep/hortus.htm

De Hortus Botanicus van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam : http://www.vu.nl/diensten/veb/ctw/hortus.html , http://www.hortus-vu.nl/

Hortus Botanicus Leiden : http://www.hortus.leidenuniv.nl/

Nationaal Herbarium (Leiden) http://nhncml.leidenuniv.nl/rhb/

Private Gardens of Netherlands: http://www.woonweb.nl/privetuin/index.html

Suisse :

Jardin Botanique de Genève : http://www.ville-ge.ch/geneve/culture/musees/musees/botanique.htm

UK:

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew: http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/

National Collection Plant holders : http://www.nccpg.org.uk/

USA:

Harvard herbarium : http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens : http://www.selby.org/welcome.htm

New York Botanical Garden: http://www.nybg.org/

Brooklyn Botanic Garden: http://www.bbg.org/

University of Florida Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants : http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/

Washington University Herb Garden: http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/uwmhg/index.html
 
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PEOPLE

Anne Marie Gabriel (France, site en francais) : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/anne-marie.gabriel/orchidee/

Claudio Rossi Cloud’s orchids : http://home.ica.net/~birch/orchids.htm

Dr Tanaka’s friends (Japan)  : http://www.orchid.or.jp/orchid/people/tanaka/cont/enfriendindex.html

Fleur Malcom’s Orchid pages : http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/8451/orchid.html

Jens Knapp, Germany : http://home.t-online.de/home/r.knapp/eorchid.htm

Jerry Bolce, The Orchid House (Canada) : http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~jerry/orchids/

Kathy’s orchid pics : http://www.geocities.com/brassia.geo/

Linda’s Orchid pages : http://www.orchidlady.com/

Marc Flandre (France , site en francais) : http://perso.respublica.fr/orchidees/

Orkide Vinduet (in danish) : http://www.orkide.hjem.wanadoo.dk/

Patrick Cloes (Pleuro’s) : http://www.orchidpatrickcloes.yucom.be/

Roberto Burle Marx, Minas Gerais, Brazil : http://gold.horizontes.com.br/~edr/orchids.html

Rome’s orchid pages, Hawaï : http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/7765/

Silvia & Cedric's Orchid Pages (UK) : http://www.oncil.demon.co.uk/

SyuTyuSen's Orchid Photo Album, Japan : http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~jewelorc/
 

Plants varia

Thompson & Morgan Seeds (UK): http://www.thompson-morgan.com/

Logee’s Greenhouses (USA) : http://logees.com/

Gardening 365 (UK) : http://www.oxalis.co.uk/

Backyard Gardener (alpines) : http://www.eskimo.com/~mcalpin/nur.html

Cambrian Carnivorous : http://www.flytrap.demon.co.uk/index.htm

Sollya (Belgium) : http://www.tuininfo.com/sollya/

Groen Net (gardening & nurseries, NL) : http://www.groen.net/

De Groenwijzer van Nederlands en Belgie (in dutch) : http://www.groeninfo.com/

SUPPLIES :

Aluminet (shading cloth) : http://www.green-tek.com/alum.html

Ann Mann’s Orchids & Fogger (FL) : http://www.cfog.com/

Jaybird Manufacturing (foggers) : http://www.jaybird-mfg.com/xe.html

Hanna Instruments (pH, conductivity,…) : http://www.hannainst.com/

Simply Control (UK) : http://www.simplycontrol.com/

     Biological pest control :

Biobest : http://www.biobest.be/en/index.htm

Cinnamite (Mycotech.com) : http://www.mycotech.com/ Natural Pest Control : http://www.natpestco.com/index2.html

RO Systems (reverse osmosis) (just a few websites, among many):
http://www.rosystems.com/frames.html

http://www.rosystems.com/frames.html

http://www.pure-earth.com/ro.html

http://www.aquatech.nl/

http://www.a1ultrapure.com/plants.html

http://www.aquadirect.com/purify/spec.html

http://www.aquacare.de/index_e.htm

http://www.hydroponicwater.com/aboutus.htm

http://www.aquariumwaterfilters.com/

http://www.hw-wiegandt.de/umkehr_osmose_e.html

http://www.aqua-medic.de/index0.html

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Orchid Tours

Mae Tang Orchids tours (Thailand, UK) : http://www.maetangorchids.com/

Nei (UK)  (Asia): http://www.neiuk.co.uk/

The use of Orchids (Defina de Araujo, Brazil) : http://www.delfinadearaujo.com/on2000/on11/paginas/mateng01.htm

Herbal use of Orchids (Saleph etc… )  http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/o/orchid13.html

Orchid Stamps club : http://www.ozemail.com.au/~cattleya/tosci.html

Orchid Stamps: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1289/HOS/stamp_intro.html , http://members.iinet.net.au/~barryg/Stamps.htm

Brazilian Orchid Stamps : http://aodorchid.vila.bol.com.br/stamps.html

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Last update 19 Jun 2009