Hello Bill!

Alt. inaries. pictres.orchids is a newgroup who exist. If your ISP doesn`t
carry it, ask them to add it on their server!
If not, you can also subscribe to other server such as Giganews.com,
teranews.com etc...

Because there`s so many different hybrid from one specie or another, it
might be impossible to correctly identify your plant. We call those the NOID
plant!

A good place to buy orchid is to go to a gool orchid seller and even there,
sometimes we endup with a NOID plant!

Good Luck!

Claude

"Dr Bill" wrote in message
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| As a relative newcomer to orchids, I have spent most of my efforts in
| buying orchids from Lowes, Home Depot, etc. that have already bloomed.
| These are, 1) very inexpensive (1/2 to 2/3 off retail price) and, 2)
| not identified.
| I can tell a Phalaenopsis from a Dendrobium from a Paphiopedilum, but
| as these orchids rebloom, I have no idea how to identify them any
| further.
|
| With a few, I have been lucky to find their picture in a book or in a
| catalogue. However, the vast majority remain a mystery. I have tried
| searches in this newsgroup and on Google, but the only site I come up
| with is alt.binaries.pictures.orchids, and that doesn't seem to exist.
|
| Is there a site where I can post pictures I have taken of the blooms
| in hopes that one of you experts might recognize the plant? I know
| that digital photos are large files, but does such a service exist
| within this newsgroup or perhaps at some aacademic institution?
|
| Thanks for any help you can give me.