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MOS Monthly Meeting
Pacific Palisades Women's Club
901 Haverford Ave
Pacific Palisades, CA
7:00
p.m.
Main Program
The New Miniature
Slipper Orchid Hybrids
Harold Koopowitz
Harold
Koopowitz grew up in South Africa where he attended
university majoring in Botany and Zoology. Upon
completion of his doctorate at UCLA in 1968, he joined
the faculty at the University of California at Irvine.
He also served as director of the UCI Arboretum for 20
years. He recently retired as a professor of biology at
UCI, where he did research on conservation and ecology.
Dr.
Koopowitz is well known for his work on slipper orchids,
both species and hybrids and is author of several books
and an impressive number of research papers. His most
recent books include "Orchids and their Conservation"
and "Clivias" and he has just finished a new book on
"Tropical Slipper Orchids" for Timber Press. Harold is
the editor in chief of the Orchid Digest and a
leader in orchid conservation.
A
founding partner in Paphanatics, Unlimited, Harold still
collects and breeds slipper orchids focusing on
hybridizing miniature complex slippers, brachypetalum
hybrids.
Dr.
Koopowitz published an article on the topic of his
lecture in Orchid Digest, vol. 70, No.1, Jan-Mar,
2006.
The Plant Table will be
purchased from Dr. Koopowitz
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