Orchids Magazine

Orchids Magazine

Published since 1932, Orchids magazine (formerly known as the AOS Bulletin) is among the many benefits of an AOS membership. Exploding with glorious full-page color photographs, each monthly issue is packed with topics of current interest for both beginners and advanced orchid growers.

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Latest Issue - September 2025

September 2025

Featured this month

Juraj Kojš completes his three-part series on the color forms of Cattleya violacea with a thorough treatment of the semialba and semialba flamea color groups. Jim Cootes continues his series on the genus Dendrobium with Part 13: Dendrobium section Oxyglossum. This section comprises some of the most beautiful, albeit miniature, species in the entire genus. The article is lavishly illustrated and covers the most popular species in the section. Rounding out our features this month, Tere Camacho introduces us to the species of leafless Dendrophylax native to Cuba.

Rounding out the September 2025 issue

  • Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
  • Questions and Answers by Ron McHatton
  • Membership Committee Update - We Have a Winner! by Deb Boersma
  • For the Novice - Edema by Sue Bottom
  • My Favorite Orchid - Poetic Platantheras by Mary Ruden
  • How I Grow - A New Way to Grow Orchids by Katherine Weitz
  • Artificial Intelligence - A Chat with ChatGPT by André Schuiteman
  • Collector's Item - Dyakia hendersoniana by Charles Wilson
  • Orchids Illustrated - The Garden by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
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Coming in October

  • October brings our annual Supplement, this year devoted to slipper orchids!
  • A Collector’s Dilemma: Telling Paphiopedilum bellatulum, leucochilum and godefroyae Apart - by Alina Furtak
  • Brachy’s Paphs and their Hybrids by Steve Gonzalez-Costa
  • The Enchanting Slipper Orchid: The Allure of Paphiopedilum bellatulum - by Alina Furtak
  • Phragmipedium Carol Kanzer - by Olaf Gruss
  • Rediscovery of Mexipedium xerophyticum (Soto Arenas, Salazar & Hágsater) V.A. Albert & M.W. Chase - By Eduardo A. Pérez-García 
  • Paphiopedilum Hybrids - By Dave Sorokowski
    Growing Some Phragmipediums in a Mycorrhizal Soil Mix - by Judith Rapacz-Hasler and Gary Murza
  • Paphiopedilum farrieanum and Its Hybrids - by Deb Jensen

Coming in the October issue of Orchids

  • Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
  • Questions and Answers by Ron McHatton
  • For the Novice - Humidity and Vapor Pressure Deficit by Sue Bottom
  • My Favorite Orchid - Phragmipedium Jason Fischer 'Janet's Patience' AM/AOS by James Roberts
  • Collector's Item - You Must try a Chysis by David Rosenfeld
  • Orchids Illustrated - Bletilla - The Urn Orchid by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
  • Artificial Intelligence - Coding for Orchids: Maximizing Research with AI by Carter Kuehn
  • Caring for and Cultivating Orchids in the Greenhouse by Gisela Utz
    Dendrobium and its Relatives, Part 14 by Jim Cootes
  • About the True Xex Lives of Catasetum and Cycnoches, Part 1 by Günter Gerlach
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