Re: Orchids in California
- Subject: Re: Orchids in California
- From: Jason D j*@yahoo.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:01:06 -0800 (PST)
Hi Tim & Bill,
Browsing in a bookstore this weekend, what did I
happen upon? _The Wild Orchids of California_, by
Ronald Coleman:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/080148782X/qid=1109098142/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5245262-0660904?v=glance&s=books
There are more chaparral/coastal scrub species than I
had thought, but not a ton. One is *endemic* to
Monterey County. The counties with the most species
are in the rainy northwest corner of California, as I
had suspected.
The Mediterranean species do sound like good bets for
our Calif. medit-climate gardens, assuming their
pollinator is not in California (orchids usually have
very specific pollinators) and thus wouldn't enable
these species to reseed.
Cheers,
Jason
San Francisco
--- Gayle & Tim Kalman <leahdragonfly@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Dear Bill,
>
> Corallorhiza striata seem to grow just about
> everywhere oaks do here (eastern San Francisco bay
> area).
>
> Tim Kalman
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Grant
> To: Medit Plants
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 8:46 AM
> Subject: Orchid
>
>
> To the best of my knowledge and my own research, I
> think I have a large colony of
> Corallorhiza maculata growing under some coastal
> oaks on a hillside. Could I be right? Bill Grant,
> Monterey Bay
