Agree 100% re: the user-unfriendliness, I wish they'd just update their search engine to allow an option for results from near-misses; the partial matching is decent but something as simple as a misspelled or partially illegible tag can entirely defeat most people's efforts to look up a name. The new issues with so many duplicate names due to expansion of Cattleya are also annoying, though unlike many I don't place blame with the molecular taxonomists (I enjoy new understandings of outdated generic concepts, even if not completely final) but rather I think allowing registration of identical names in closely-related genera in the first place was unwise (though of course that ship sailed years ago)... All in all, the RHS is a truly amazing organization that does far more good than ill.








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