Get your own Free HomepageAbout ..... Lycaste:
The most easy way to learn a lot about Lycaste is to buy "Lycaste species The essential Guide" by Dr. Henry F.Oakeley from Beckenham, England. He is the holder of the National Collection of Lycastes in Great Britain. The Guide shows color-pictures of all Lycaste species, natural hybrids and the subspecies with brief-descriptions of the flowers.
On the second page is a splendid series of articles from the American Orchid Society Bulletin Volumes, of 1991. Almost all the volumes of that year give descriptions of Lycastes by Henry Oakeley, with a summary of the species and more details between the different species. It also gives a lot of references.
About ..... My first view on Lycaste:
In november 1993, I visited the orchid show in Lincoln, England, with Jack Wubben, nurserieholder in the Netherlands. He was there with several plants for trade and to show plants. After the show I took a short holiday in London. Jack arranged a ride to London for me, where I would visite the Botanical Gardens Kew and Wisley on my own. The driver was ...... Henry Oakeley. Near London Henry asked me to stay the night at his place, which I accepted. After arrival, he showed me his plants. This is where I saw my favorite Lycaste for the first time..... The Green Lycaste locusta with the white fimbriation (a picture of locusta is on my homepage). Inside the house we talked about orchids and as a present he gave me, The Guide, published a half year earlier. I use this guide, with the foreword of Henry, almost every day. He also gave me an invitation for the Botanical Gardens, where I was welcomed almost like a VIP.
About ..... Me (and my plants):
My name is Adrian van Andel, and I reside in Wijk bij Duurstede, a small town near Utrecht, in the middle of the Netherlands. My appartement is on the first and second floor, and my greenhouse is on the first floor. The size is approximately 4,5 meter by 2,5 meter, with heating, ventilation and a mistinstallation. It is a pity that I have only tapwater for watering my plants, rainwater should be much bether. Half of the greenhouse is occupied by about 150 Lycaste-species; the southside (where the heater is) is to warm for those plants, and therefore my plants from Madagascar are standing(or hanging) there, like Angraecum (my biggest plant is Angraecum eburneum subsp. superbum var. longicalcar, also named Angraecum superbum var. longicalcar; or, a lot easier, Angraecum longicalcar) with a width of 1,5 meter, by 1 meter high. This one flowers every year for 3 months, and has a flowerstalk of over a meter high, with over 15 big flowers. Aerangis, Aeranthes, Cyrtorchis, Jumellea and Sobennikoffia are the ones on the south side. Some other plants I have, are Anguloa, Brassia, Coelogyne, Oncidium, Stanhopea, and some Paphiopedilums.
I only have a few hybrids.
I am still looking for some Lycaste-species like: cochleata, consobrina, crinita, jarae, lanipes, lata, maxibractea, mathiasae, some variaties of skinneri and suaveolens. But I continue to look also for the ones I allready have.
My occupation is a financial manager and I work for the veterans organisation in the Netherlands. Most of the times when Jack Wubben goes to England for shows, I go with him to give him a hand and to look over (= most of the time, to buy some more Lycaste-plants). I like the shows in England.
About ..... References:
Dr.Henry F.Oakeley: "Lycaste Species The Essential Guide"
------------------------ ISBN 0 9521461 0 X (1993) (address below)
Dr.Henry F.Oakeley: AOS Bulletin Volume 60 (year 1991) series of articles
------------------------ (address of the bookshop AOS see below)
Dr.J.A. Fowlie........: "The Genus Lycaste" (1970)
A.F.W. Alcorn........: "Lycaste Orchids, Cultivation and Hybridisation"
------------------------ ISBN 0 646 14321 2 (199?)
P.C. Tomlinson.......: "Lycaste & Anguloa, A Cultural Guide"
------------------------ ISBN 0 908684 02 9 (?)
------------------------ Published by The Wellington Orchid Society Inc.
About ..... Acknowledgement:
By courtesy of The Royal Horticultural Society and written permission (dated 26.02.1998) of The International Registration Authority For Orchid Hybrids, I publish the list of hybrids.
About ..... Addresses:
National Collection of Lycastes and Anguloas,
77, Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, BR3 1NR, Kent, England.
(to order "The Essential Guide").
The Royal Horticultural Society RHS,
80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE, England.
The International Registration Authority For Orchid Hybrids IRAOH,
P O Box 1072, Frome, Somerset BA11 5NY, England.
The Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AE, England.
RHS Garden, Wisley,
Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QB, England.
The Orchid Review, RHS Subscription Service,
P O Box 38, Ashford, Kent TN25 6PR, England.
The Orchid Digest, c/o Robert H.Schuler, Executive Director,
P O Box 1216, Redlands, CA 92373-0402, USA.
Orchids, American Orchid Society, Membership Services Department,
6000 South Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL 33405-4199, USA.
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