Our October issue anchors our annual supplement on spots and stripes in the orchid world with a richly illustrated feature article by Esteban (Steve) Gonzalez-Costa on Paphiopedilum sukhakulii and its hybrids. Graham Ramsey, Laura Newton and Allan Watson relate their experiences and observations on growing in New Zealand tree fern fiber - a medium very different from the typical South American tree fern products. And, rounding out our features this month, Spiro Kasomenakis treats us to some of the fascinating, if not just bizarre, orchids of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Rounding out our October issue:

• Tom's Monthly Checklist
• Collector's Item - The Good, the Bad - and the Real Stinkers: Bulbophyllum section Racemosae by Charles Wilson
• The New Refugium Botanicum - Arpophyllum giganteum by Grettel Salguero, Adam Karremans and Franco Pupulin
• Orchids Illustrated - Smelting an Orchid Legacy by Peggy Alrich and Wesley Higgins
• Orchids of the World - Finca Dracula; a Panamanian Treasure by Tom Mirenda
• Lindleyana - Rare and Threatened Orchids of Central Africa, Part 2 by Muriello Simo-Droissart, Tariq Stévart, Bonaventure Sonké and Vincent Droissart
• Book Review - Vanishing Beauty: Native Costa Rican Orchids, Vol. 2 - Laceana-Pteroglossa. Review by Leon Glicenstein, PhD