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Jonyscot
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JEK YAP
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List of Major Orchid Shows around here, South East Asia this month can be found at Perak Orchid Society Website: www.posociety.com |
Dr. Joseph Arditti
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Cal Dodson, a great orchid scientist and a wise man told them to stay but they did not listen. I think Lowman was not ver smart doing what she did. |
Hideka Kobayashi
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Kovach flew back to the States and went through U.S. Customs in Miami. He declared he had plants and was whisked through. Kovach headed straight for Selby, where, on June 5, he met with Dr. Wesley E. Higgins, head of the orchid identification center, and Dr. John T. Atwood, then Selby's orchid curator.
Higgins still works at the gardens, but Atwood left last year.
It's unclear what, if any, paperwork was produced when Kovach showed up.
Lowman told the Herald-Tribune last year that Kovach produced the proper paperwork upon his arrival and that "we would have kicked him out" if he didn't have it.
Lowman also said that Selby does not check or verify papers. Hundreds of amateurs stream through Selby every month seeking to have their orchids identified, she said, and checking paperwork is akin to law enforcement work for which Selby is ill-suited.
Orchid growing is big business. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there are more than 700 orchid growers in the United States with sales topping $100 million annually.
When a new orchid is found, there is prestige waiting for whoever publishes the discovery first. And according to internationally accepted rules of plant nomenclature, the first to publish a description of a species gets to name it.
Selby, after a marathon session of writing, research, description and peer review via Internet, published a brief description in a special handout on June 10, 2002. The handout's tiny circulation didn't meet accepted standards for publication, though.
Two days later, just a week after Kovach dropped off the flower, Selby published its description in a special edition of its journal "Selbyana," which did meet the requirements.
A woman who answered the phone Thursday at Kovach's home in Goldvein, Va., declined to comment and hung up.
Selby's light-speed naming of the orchid beat out Eric A. Christenson, a former Selby taxonomist who was working to name the same plant.
Christenson said Thursday that he feels that Selby got caught up in a trend in the orchid community of playing loose with the rules.
"Selby wouldn't be in the trouble it is today if it hadn't taken baby steps toward this," he said. "It's kind of indicative of a system gone wrong."
Christenson said he harbors no ill will to those who remain at Selby, but that there is no way anyone could have thought they would get away with any involvement in smuggling a high-profile orchid into the country.
"These people are idiots," he said. "It's way too high profile to get away with. And they didn't."
Information from The Associated Press was included in this report.
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