Barbara Tisherman Slipper Orchid Collection / Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US) "Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and the Orchid Society of Western PA are celebrating the naming of the Barbara Tisherman Slipper Orchid Collection at Phipps with national and international speakers... on October 5th. ... The day will feature lectures... four talks offering contemporary and historical slipper overviews... Developing a collection... represents a formal partnership between Phipps and the Orchid Society of Western Pennsylvania. The goal is to acquire and show all species of slipper orchids, including important historical hybrids... the Slipper Orchid Alliance... Barbara founded it in 1999... Slippers are... at risk because... they cannot be cloned in a lab. They can be reproduced only by seed or vegetative division... Having a home at Phipps will help preserve the genetic material of many varieties for propagation and research, Tisherman says."
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 04:39:32 +0000
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