2026/06 June ORCHIDS Magazine

The Dendrobium series by Jim Cootes continues this month with Part 20: Dendrobium section Aporum. This curious group of species is considered to be a separate genus, Aporum, by some taxonomists but is currently accepted by Plants of the World Online as a section of an expanded genus Dendrobium. Regardless of where you put this group, these plants, with their unusual imbricated foliage, deserve a bigger presence in our collections.  This month also concludes the series on Cattleya violacea Hybrids by Juraj Kojš with a lavishly illustrated survey of the hybrids of the 21st century.

Also in this issue

Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
Questions and Answers by Ron McHatton
Membership Committee Update - Spotlight on James Sim: From Jakarta to Australia, a Young Judge’s Path by Deb Boersma
Education Committee Update - The Orchid Culture Project by Jane Butcher, Bridget Andoe, and Marinel Kelley/ Foreword by Eron Borne 
For the Novice - Root Rot Caused by Rhizoctonia Sue Bottom
Collector’s Item - Oncidium leucochilum Bateman ex Lindl. 1837 by Judith Rapacz-Hasler
Orchids Illustrated - Nervilia — Shield Orchids by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
Lindleyana - Encyclia infernula P. Szabó & Szeszko: A New Species of Encyclia (Laeliinae) From Western Mexico and Nomenclatural Confusion in an Old Species by Dennis R. Szeszko and Pétér É. Szabó
My Favorite Orchid - A Dendrobium nobile Hybrid by Nancy A. Marley