25 April 2009: Dr. Robert Dressler spoke at Houston OS Show/AOS meetings on "Recent Work on Sobralias and Lankester Garden."
Link
6 April 2009: Added literature references - spent day at BRIT library - Botanical Tesearch Institute of Texas, Fort Worth.
30 November 2008: 20th anniversary of the tragic death of famed botanical artist and Amazon explorer Margaret Ursula Mee (1909-88), on the eve of her exhibition of Brazilian Amazon paintings at Kew Gardens.
14 October 2008: added new references to The Lit and modified related species pages.
12 October 2008: updated page on Sobralia margaritae with additional illustrations.
9 October 2008: Updated the list of Sobralia hybrids. A big bunch of kudos to Bruce Rogers for thoughtfully registering Sobralia Nina Rach (Veitchii x Mirabilis) last month! Cross was made by Howard Liebman.
15 May 2008: Bruce Rogers registers two new Sobralia crosses with the RHS:
Sobralia Lydia (xantholeuca x fimbriata) and Sobralia Raymond (violacea x powellii).
14 April 2008: Ted Green registered a new Sobralia cross with the RHS: Sobralia Puanani (macrantha x violacea).
1-4 Feb 2007: Sobralia macrantha exhibited at AGO show, Exposición Nacional de Orquídeas, at Anacafe in Guatemala City [Photo1,
Photo2,
Photo3]. Field trips to Dep. Jalapa and Tikal.
4 January 2007: Bruce Rogers registered a new Sobralia cross with the RHS:
Sobralia Modesty (biflora x decora)
27 July 2006: New information for Sobralia pfavii, from Eric Christenson.
24 May 2006: Sobralias exhibited at the AGO show, Exposición Nacional de Orquídeas, at Anacafe, Avenida las Américas, Guatemala City [Photo1, Photo2]. Sobralia blooming at the Palmieri's [Photo1, Photo2, Photo3].
4 May 2006: Posted "Life History of Sobralia Songbird," written for this website by hybridizer Peter Elfleet, New Zealand (Thanks, Peter!!). You can read it here:
Sobralia Songbird.
10 Feb 2006: Updated and presented a program on Sobralias at Fairchild Tropical Gardens in Coral Gables, Florida, for the Coalition for Orchid Species. The Chihuly glass exhibit was extraordinary, well worth the visit. Thank you, Bert Bressman!
20 Oct 2005: Updates to the literature for French Guiana, new info for 4 Elleanthus sp., and for 7 Sobralia sp.
4 Oct 2005: Added a new hybrid, Sobralia Songbird (macrantha x Mirabilis), and several new AOS awards.
29 Sept 2005: Updated the reference literature lists.
18 Sept 2005: New photos of two different plants of Sobralia turkeliae grown in the Bay area, provided by Eric Hunt. Thanks Eric!
14 Sept 2005: New page for the second-generation hybrid Sobralia Colmaniae (Veitchii x xantholeuca).
10 Aug 2004: New page for
Sobralia kruscayae, a white Panamanian species named in honor of
Kruskaya Melgarejo, of ANAM (formerly INRENARE). Photos from Sr. Andres Maduro.
16 Dec 2003: New photos for
Sobralia caloglossa provided by Erica Moron de Abad.
15 Dec 2003: New photos for
Sobralia rondoni provided by Erica Moron de Abad.
6 Nov 2003: New photo for
Sobralia dichotoma by Guillermo Angulo, and new references.
5 Nov 2003:
Started a new page,
"Unidentified Sobralias." Added
photos of a little, rose colored sobralia from Erica Morón de Abad in Peru [ema_orquideas@terra.com.pe], which bears keikis at the nodes.
1 April 2003: New photos for Sobralia lowii from Russell Hutton, L&R Orchids, Tuakau, New Zealand.
New photos for Sobralia crocea from Moises Cavero, Peru.
New images for
Sobralia ruckeri.
1 July 2002: New additions to the list of Sobralia Literature and to individual species pages, from The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature. Also email contact, sobralia@autrevie.com, made consistent throughout.
26 Nov 2001: Dr. Robert Dressler speaking on "Sobralias" at the monthly meeting of the Gainesville Orchid Society.
2 Nov 2001: Dr. Robert Dressler's lecture on "Sobralias" at the AOS Trustees Meeting and show in Corpus Christi: Lecture notes and Photo of him receiving AOS Gold Medal of Achievement.
25 April 2001: Added new image of Sobralia bouchei from Dave Hunt.
12 April 2001: Added Google SafeSearch toolbar to the main pages. Two Ecuadoran plants of Sobralia crocea are blooming for me this week in Houston (bright orange). Noticed that the Austrian Orchid Society (Oesterreichische Orchideengesellschaft) has listed The Sobralia Pages among their links.
15 Feb 2001: Added new Sobralia banner to all main pages. Updated Elleanthus and Palmorchis pages.
17 January 2001: Image of a red Sobralia (upper left) from the set of 24 orchid cigarette cards ("stiffeners") published by Carreras in 1925.
23 Oct 2000: New pages created for Sobralia augusta and Sob. chlorantha. Added information from Delfina about confirmed occurrences of Sobralia species in Brazil to individual species pages for Sob. liliastrum, suaveolens, augusta, sessilis, vallida, infundibuligera.
20 Oct 2000: New page for Sobralia oliva-estevae, as well as additions to Sob. xantholeuca, Sob. leucoxantha, and Sob. macrantha.
18 Oct 2000: New page for Sobralia margaretae Pabst 1977, including Margaret Mee's watercolor of that species. Also a new page for Sobralia wilsoniana Rolfe 1890, cultivated at Arenal Botanical Gardens, CR.
11 Oct 2000: Added camera symbols to distinguish all species/hybrids with photos. Created new pages for Sob. bouchei Ames & C. Schweinfurth 1930; for Sob. callosa L.O. Williams 1946; and for Sob. undatocarinata C. Schweinfurth 1938.
7 Oct 2000: Created a new page for Sob. valida Rolfe 1909.
