Kenneth Brucynick sent me a link to this site
http://orchid.unibas.ch/bibliorchidea.index.php

There's Bob Betts' photo search for a kinda sorta index to orchids at the
London Orchid Scoiety site http://los.lon.imag.net/picref.asp. I like
Miranda's page for brazilian orchids. http://mirandaorchids.com/

There used to be a fellow in Australia who had a decent page for dendrobiums
but I'm blanking on his name....it wasn't Stocker...grrr.. it'll come to me.

Of course Eric Hunt's page for pictures erichunt.com or his flikr site.
People's comments (especially for the borneo photo ids) are great.

I really don't use the ISOPE anymore. The advice is just too vague. I use
it for photo ids.

But generally I just put whatever orchid I'm looking for in teh google
search engine. Lots of times all that comes up will be vague stuff from
chat rooms, which I take with a grain of salt unless I know/heard of the
person giving the advice.

K Barrett




"Kye" wrote in message
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Any particular online resources you would like to mention?

Cheers
Kye.

"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Kye wrote:
OK guys, heres a new thread for you all....

When you are looking for information on a plant, what information do you
generally want to find and in what format.

For myself, if I am looking for information on a plant, the most common
information I want is:

* History of naming (synonyms, taxonomists etc)
* Reference books/journals that have information about that plant
* Description of growth forms and idiosyncrasies of the
species/hybrid
* Photographs of the species and varietals
* Taxanomic description of the type species of the plant for
comparison to the plant which I am looking at
* Flowering season in its native environment

Look forward to your views.

Cheers
Kye.




Me too. But there's no substitute for a good library. Dave Gillingham
sent me articles on Den speciosum that gave me great information on the
varieties for this species and its habitat range. Now I know what to
look for if I ever decide to buy one of these expensive orchids.

There are times I hate waiting for the computer and the different
programs to boot up in order to access information. Sometimes its easier
to look it up in an index or a book like Cribb's checklist to Madagascar
species.

Usually information available online is just the same stuff stolen from
each other. But every now and then there's some good stuff available
online.

K Barrett