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Group concerned mainly with the native orchids of Switzerland. Contact and meetings info. Switzerland.
Membership, activities, photos, and information about local species. Founded 2010. Aquitaine, France.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Schleswig-Holstein
Group news, activities, membership, and contact information. Priority is placed on the preservation of local orchid populations. Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Baden-Württemberg
Meeting and contact info. European orchid photos. Email postcards, forum, and shop. Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Bayern
Information, including mapping, of local orchid populations. Munich, Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Hamburg
Working group dedicated to European native species, their biology, distribution, habitat requirements, and preserving the remaining populations. Founded in 1998. Hamburg, Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Hessen
Information concerning the Hessen branch of the AHO. Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Niedersachsen
Studying, mapping, and protecting the native orchids of Lower Saxony. Founded 1981. Niedersachsen, Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Nordrhein-Westfalen des BUND NW
Information about orchids occurring in the region. Activities, photos, membership, and contact information. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland
Protecting local orchids and their habitats. The site features many photos and orchid descriptions. Founded in 1981. Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Sachsen-Anhalt
Group committed to the conservation of indigenous orchids found in the region. The site features photos and descriptions of local orchids, and a book is available. Founded 1961. Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen : Thüringen
Meetings, news, and contact information. Photos and mapping of the indigenous orchids found around Thüringen. Uhlstädt-Kirchhasel, Germany.
Association Auboise d'Orchidophilie Exotique
Photos, events, articles, and member information. The emphasis is on tropical orchids, but the site also features information about the local native orchids. France.
Association Cyrno-Méditerranéenne d'Orchidologie
Association whose primarily purpose is the study of wild orchids found on Corsica. Founded 2000. Corsica, France.
Association news, events, photos, native orchid info, and more. Charenton le Pont, France.
Association Régionale des Orchidophiles de Strasbourg
Group of orchid enthusiasts who are passionate about the wild orchids found in the region, as well as exotic varieties from elsewhere. Founded 2007. Strasbourg, France.
Articles, club information, and discussion forum. Descriptions and photos of local orchids. Minsk, Belarus.
Club des Amateurs Wallons d'Orchidées
Information on European and tropical orchids. Culture notes, newsletters, club activities, and membership information. Founded 1999. Liège, Belgium.
Promoting ecotourism to Greece, the site features some of the more than 200 species of orchids found there.
Members of the Estonian Orchid Protection Club are devoted to protecting the 36 species of orchids found in the country. Photo gallery of club excursions. Founded in 1985. Estonia.
The Epiphytic Plant Research and Information Center was founded in 1997 to maintain natural habitats of epiphytic plants, educate the public, create a reserve collection of epiphytic plants, and to help with publications. Huissen, Netherlands.
Non-profit organization of European orchid societies and other European institutions that have an interest in orchids. Members work towards protecting endangered orchids and simplifying customs procedures in Europe.
Grup Orquidològic de Catalunya - GOC
Activity, membership, and contact Information. Also sections about the orchids of Europe. Formerly known as Associació Orquidològica de Catalunya. Catalonia/Spain.
Protecting and promoting the private, cultivated, orchid collection known as Hortus Orchis. The site features a photo gallery complete with taxonomy and habitat information. There is also a section describing native orchids found in the province of Bergamo, Italy.
Bringing together orchid enthusiasts and professionals to help protect the 34 orchid species found in Latvia, and to raise people's awareness of the orchid hobby. In the site's discussion forum, Latvian is the primary language, but other languages are also welcomed. Founded in 2009. Latvia.
Lietuvos Orchidėjininkų Draugija
Membership information for the Lithuanian Orchid Society. Events, news, orchid magazine, culture tips, photo gallery, and a discussion forum. Conservation and scientific study of native Lithuanian orchids. Founded in 2010. Vilnius, Lithuania.
Contact info for the Norwegian Orchid Society (Norsk Orkideforening). Indigenous orchids with photos. Post cards. Founded in 1988. Oslo, Norway.
Group of orchid enthusiasts interested in tropical and local native orchids. List of local native orchids, with images. Identification key to orchid genera growing in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Annual excursions. Founded in 1960. Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic.
Information about, and photos of, the orchids found in Italy. Official page of the Italian Group for the Research on Wild Orchids, G.I.R.O.S., (Gruppo Italiano per la Ricerca sulle Orchidee Spontanee). A book, covering the orchids of Italy, is also available. Italy.
Orchidee spontanee del Centro Italia
Associated with the Gruppo Italiano Ricerca Orchidee Spontanee (GIROS), the site features information, including photos, about orchids observed in the central part of the country. Italy.
Société Française d'Orchidophilie - Rhône-Alpes
Membership, contact, and activities information. Photographs and descriptions of many orchids found locally. Founded in 1977. France.
Société Française d'Orchidophilie Auvergne
Promoting the protection of local indigenous orchids and the culture of exotic species. Auvergne, France.
Société Française d'Orchidophilie de Lorraine-Alsace
Working towards the sustainability of local orchid species. Activities and contact information. Alsace-Lorraine region of France.
Société Française d'Orchidophilie de Poitou-Charentes et Vendée
SFO affiliated group whose aims include the protection of native orchids in the region, and the culture of exotic orchids. The site features many photos of indigenous orchids and their pollinators. France.
Société Francaise des Orchidées - Languedoc
Membership information, contact details, newsletters, and forum. Also features a listing, with images, of orchid species found in the Languedoc area of France.
Membership, activities, and contact information. Information about orchids native to the area. Founded in 2002. North, South, and East Tyrol, Austria.
News, activities, and information about Dutch and other European orchids. Publishers of the magazine "Eurorchis". Netherlands.
Hundreds of students are involved in innovative approaches to orchid conservation through enterprise and global cooperation. The school has a micro-propagation laboratory and one of the UK's most extensive orchid collections in its greenhouse where the students grow many species from seed. Writhlington, Radstock, United Kingdom.