photos of clowesii orchids

[stephenk]

Hi

Just come across your excellent site and would like to ask anyone on here if they have brilliant hi-res photos of any clowesii orchids that we could print in Salford Star magazine in the UK.

I'll try and explain...Salford is a city next to Manchester that has an amazing heritage that we like to show. And one of the things we've come across is a strain of orchid called clowesii which gets its name from the Rev John Clowes - this huge orchid collector (he hired John Lindley to gather them from S.America) who gave his collection to the Queen over 100 years ago, which ended up in Kew Gardens, London.

Anyway Rev Clowes lived (well, kind of owned) Salford so we thought it would make a nice heritage article to tell people that there's a whole genus of orchid from Salford. Kew Gardens are helping with the article and have sent us a photo of the Anguloa clowesii - but we're looking for photos of other strains (if that's the right name - this is a whole new botanical world for me!)

The Salford Star is a 76 page award wininng, free colour glossy mag which is non profit making (we lose money, lots of it, on every issue!). It's a community magazine with a difference - we try to be `quality'! If you need any further details on it please check our website (it's currently being re-vamped) or just Google us.

You can e-mail me at skingston@salfordstar.com

We can't pay anything as the whole mag is run by volunteers but we will give you a huge credit and send you some copies of the mag


Look forward to hearing from you
Cheers
Stephen
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[kavanaru]

Hi Stephen,

that's an interesting project. Hope I could help with some pics. Unfortunatelly, I have no clowesiis in my collection...

However, just for clarification. I do not know of any orchid genus named "Clowesii", but ok, there many hundreds genera in the family that probably at least one could have been honored to Rev Clowes. Anyway, I think it is more a misunderstanding in the Taxonomy and you are referring to different "clowesii" species (this also makes sense with the ending in the name "...sii".
You have Anguloa clowesii Google-Ergebnis für http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/905/689427.JPG which is avery well know plant.
Also quite well know is Miltonia clowesii IOSPE PHOTOS
also Epidendrun clowesii Orquidario Virtual » Blog Archive » Epidendrum clowesii which I did not know until I found it right now by chance while googling for the oictures to be posted in this message
Probably, there many other species with this name. Especially, if Rev Clowes was such a great collector at that time and was paying expeditions to go to collect new plants in Latin-America.

What about making a reference in your article to the Orchid Board, the coolest orchids plattform on the web?

[stephenk]

Hi

Thanks for that - and the links to the clowesii. I'm learning more every day!

I will make ref to the Orchid Board in the article, partic if I get some photos from your members

Cheers and thanks
Stephen

[kavanaru]

just wanted to bring this thread to the front again