| I wish to respectfully and politely disagree with snowballs on the point that Google (e.g. the Internet) is a good place to search for orchid info. The web is packed with misleading, vague, and just plain wrong information on orchids, both with respect to their culture (ask anyone who has searched for Dendrobium culture info) and to their identification. I have even found errors in Wikipedia entries on orchids. A while back, after beign repeatedly shocked at the wrong info i'd encounter when doing web searches, I did an informal web accuracy check and found on average almost 1/3 of the hits contained inaccuracies.
If the web is used, i urge folks to use only reputable authoratative sources like the RHS, AOS, Missouri Botanical Gardens, or other similar sites or to use the web info they find as a starting point and check its accuracy with other authoritative sources like published monographs, books, journals, and the like.
The web is convenient but unfortunately not that reliable. It's not safe to assume that information found on the web is correct.
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