This month features a wonderfully illustrated article on white habenaria hybrids written by Leon Glicenstein. Habenaria hybrids are becoming more and more popular as their availability increases and white-flowered hybrids can be particularly striking. For growers of Catasetinae, figuring out how to get male flowers on plants that seem to always want to produce less-attractive female flowers can be quite frustrating. This month features a careful, detailed experiment undertaken by David Nickerson examining the factors that induce catasetums to produce male flowers. Throughout the world many species of native orchids have been harvested, often for centuries, for medicinal and food purposes and our third feature of the month attempts to answer the question "Is sustainable harvest of native wild orchid species possible?"

Rounding out our May magazine issue

• Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
• Collector's Item - Galeandra by Charles and Susan Wilson
• Orchids Illustrated - Mormodes by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
• A Nod to Dendrobiums, Part 2. Overview of Selected Awarded Plants By Andrew Coghill-Behrends
• Who Were These Guys, Part 20 - Botanical Illustrators by David Rosenfeld, MD
• Dracula – Practical Cultural Experience by Wolf Wanninger
• Lindleyana - New records of Lepanthes Sw. from Ecuador, Pt. 3 by Alfonso Doucette, Hugo Medina, and José Portilla