2026/10 October ORCHIDS Magazine

This month, Eduardo A. Pérez-Garcia tells us about the successful efforts of the Miguel Angel Soto Orchidarium of the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Orchidarium MÁS-FC-UNAM), to obtain material to be able to reproduce this species from seed.. Graham Guest continues his series on the late Andy Easton with Part 4: The Australian Species; Melissa McCormick brings us up to date on the work of the North American Orchid Conservation Center and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's research into the genes that allow orchids and mycorrhizal fungi to work together, critical to orchids in the wild, and Jim Cootes continues his series on the genus Dendrobium and its relatives with Part 23: The Genus Dockrillia (now included as a section of the genus Dendrobium).

Rounding out the October 2026 issue

Gift a Youth Update - Felipe Cárdenas Urrego by Deb Boersma

The Fall Orchid Cultural Calendar: October — December - by the AOS Staff and Education Committee

Questions and Answers by Ron McHatton

For the Novice - Orchid Disease Control: Part 2 by Sue Bottom

Collector’s Item - Lepanthes attenboroughii by Judith Rapacz-Hasler

Judges' Corner - Coatepec in Bloom by René Enrique García 

Orchids Illustrated - Himantoglossum - The Lizard Orchids by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich

Lindleyana - Dendrobium daneenae P.J. Spence sp. nov. by Phil J. Spence

Orchid Photography - Using Cross-Polarization to Handle Specular Reflections by Daniel L. Geiger

New Nothogenera, Combinations and Names by Julian Shaw