Orchids Magazine

Featured this month is a lavishly illustrated article by Fred Clarke on modern Catasetinae hybrids. Jim Cootes continues his series on the genus Dendrobium with Part 12: Dendrobium section Distichophyllae, a widespread group of species with relatively small flowers borne at intervals throughout the year. Rounding out our features this month, Joseph Arditti and Hideka Kobayashi introduce us to the rostellum, the fourth small structure or organ in orchid flowers, and perhaps the least well-known.

Rounding out the August 2025 issue

• Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
• Affiliated Societies Update - Making New Friends at the Deep South Orchid Society, Savannah, GA by Louise Roesser
• Nomenclature Notes - On Some Confused Oberonia Species by Daniel Geiger
• Citizen Scientist - Distinguishing Vanada motesiana and Vanda hennisiana by Sriram Kumar
• How I Grow - How I Built a Shade House by Richard H.C. Wong
• My Favorite Orchid - Papilionanda Naoki Kawamura by Naoki Kawamura
• Why Will It Not Bloom, Part 4 Cattleyas by Ron McHatton
• Collector's Item - Trichoglottis atropurpurea by Judith Rapacz-Hasler
• For the Novice - Cleaning Clay Pots by Sue Bottom
• Orchids Illustrated - George de Alwis - Lesser-Known Illustrator by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
• Book Review - Latouria Dendrobiums by Bruce Gray