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Question for the travelers and bush walkers
How, pray tell, can you identify so many relatively obscure species? Do you
take with you some type of reference? I find your knowledge incredible. Diana, with thanks to all who post these wonderful plants. |
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Question for the travelers and bush walkers
Diana,
Two things: Books, Experts. I've spent the last month IDing orchids from books! I took the A to Z of SE Asian Orchid species with me - that got me several IDs. I bought Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 in Kinabalu - that got me several more IDs, and then when I returned home I consulted Volumes 1 through 3 of Orchids of Borneo, getting yet more IDs. I also bought The Genus Coelogyne: A Synopsis in Kota Kinabalu, and The Orchids of Sarawak. Both helped with yet more IDs. Finally, I've had stellar help from many experts. Jim Cootes, Peter O'Byrne, Ng Tensung, Elisabeth George, Timothy Choltco, and I am sure I missed a few people, have all provided IDs from my unidentified photos. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org Diana Kulaga wrote: How, pray tell, can you identify so many relatively obscure species? Do you take with you some type of reference? I find your knowledge incredible. Diana, with thanks to all who post these wonderful plants. |
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Question for the travelers and bush walkers
Thanks for the response, Eric. I get it. When you are taking the photos,
many are noids for you until you research them. Makes perfect sense. And, it does make me feel a tad better! I'd hate to think there exist walking, photo taking encyclopaedias! Diana "Eric Hunt" wrote in message ... Diana, Two things: Books, Experts. I've spent the last month IDing orchids from books! I took the A to Z of SE Asian Orchid species with me - that got me several IDs. I bought Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 in Kinabalu - that got me several more IDs, and then when I returned home I consulted Volumes 1 through 3 of Orchids of Borneo, getting yet more IDs. I also bought The Genus Coelogyne: A Synopsis in Kota Kinabalu, and The Orchids of Sarawak. Both helped with yet more IDs. Finally, I've had stellar help from many experts. Jim Cootes, Peter O'Byrne, Ng Tensung, Elisabeth George, Timothy Choltco, and I am sure I missed a few people, have all provided IDs from my unidentified photos. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org Diana Kulaga wrote: How, pray tell, can you identify so many relatively obscure species? Do you take with you some type of reference? I find your knowledge incredible. Diana, with thanks to all who post these wonderful plants. |
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Question for the travelers and bush walkers
Diana,
Oh, those people do exist. Eric Christenson is one, Ron Parsons is another. Peter O'Byrne and Jim Cootes are probably like that - but I've only communicated with them by email, not in person. It's really remarkable - I was never able to even remotely stump Eric Christenson in Peru - no matter what orchid I asked about. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org Diana Kulaga wrote: Thanks for the response, Eric. I get it. When you are taking the photos, many are noids for you until you research them. Makes perfect sense. And, it does make me feel a tad better! I'd hate to think there exist walking, photo taking encyclopaedias! |
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Question for the travelers and bush walkers
Gary Yong Gee is a walking talking encyclopaedia......
Kye. "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message . .. Thanks for the response, Eric. I get it. When you are taking the photos, many are noids for you until you research them. Makes perfect sense. And, it does make me feel a tad better! I'd hate to think there exist walking, photo taking encyclopaedias! Diana "Eric Hunt" wrote in message ... Diana, Two things: Books, Experts. I've spent the last month IDing orchids from books! I took the A to Z of SE Asian Orchid species with me - that got me several IDs. I bought Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 in Kinabalu - that got me several more IDs, and then when I returned home I consulted Volumes 1 through 3 of Orchids of Borneo, getting yet more IDs. I also bought The Genus Coelogyne: A Synopsis in Kota Kinabalu, and The Orchids of Sarawak. Both helped with yet more IDs. Finally, I've had stellar help from many experts. Jim Cootes, Peter O'Byrne, Ng Tensung, Elisabeth George, Timothy Choltco, and I am sure I missed a few people, have all provided IDs from my unidentified photos. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org Diana Kulaga wrote: How, pray tell, can you identify so many relatively obscure species? Do you take with you some type of reference? I find your knowledge incredible. Diana, with thanks to all who post these wonderful plants. |
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Lecanorchis multiflora
Having spent over 2 weeks trekking with Eric through one of the wettest,
orchid rich areas in the world, I was amazed by his botanical knowledge, not only of orchid genera but a plethora of other plants, flowering or otherwise. He was hardly ever stumped in IDing the genus - species was far more difficult. One soon realises that orchids in the jungle/bush don't come with labels so you just photograph from everywhich angle (that you can get at) and hope that someone has taken a similar photo and published it or one of the experts Eric has named can help. Here is one that Eric didn't see as he decided to take a day off and start sorting the many thousands of photos he had taken. This one was described in the Orchids of Borneo series but being saprophytic it didn't rate a photo so making IDing much more difficult. It is also a saprophytic species which Peter O'Byrne helped ID. This one was found growing in really dense shade in a valley below a limestone ridge where Paph sanderianum was growing profusely but none in flower (drats). Eric keep posting. I am enjoying reliving the experience. John "Eric Hunt" wrote in message ... Diana, Oh, those people do exist. Eric Christenson is one, Ron Parsons is another. Peter O'Byrne and Jim Cootes are probably like that - but I've only communicated with them by email, not in person. It's really remarkable - I was never able to even remotely stump Eric Christenson in Peru - no matter what orchid I asked about. -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org Diana Kulaga wrote: Thanks for the response, Eric. I get it. When you are taking the photos, many are noids for you until you research them. Makes perfect sense. And, it does make me feel a tad better! I'd hate to think there exist walking, photo taking encyclopaedias! |
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