World Orchid Conference

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The World Orchid Conference (WOC) is an international event that brings together orchid enthusiasts, growers, and researchers from around the world. Held every three years, the WOC is hosted in a different location chosen through a bid process presented to the World Orchid Conference Trust (WOCT).

The WOC was initiated in 1952 by Gordon Dillon and held in St. Louis, MO, USA in October, 1954 through a collaboration between the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Orchid Society of Greater St. Louis, and the American Orchid Society.^[1] The first WOC brought together over 600 amateurs, professionals, botanists, and collectors from around the globe and laid the groundwork for subsequent conferences.^[2] Since its inception, the WOC has taken place on every continent, except Antartica. Seventeen different countries have hosted the WOC in 21 different cities from as far north as Glasgow, Scotland and as far south as Auckland, New Zealand.

The organization and planning for the World Orchid Conference is managed by the World Orchid Conference Trust (WOCT), whose mission is "to encourage and improve the science, education, conservation, art, and practice of horticulture as related to the Orchidaceae throughout the world by organizing and promoting the WOCs, other conferences, meetings, seminars, and lectures around the globe."

Upcoming events[edit]

The 23rd World Orchid Conference will be held Feb. 25th - March 10th, 2024 in Tainan, Taiwan.

The 23rd WOC was originally scheduled to be held March 9-18, 2020 at the former Flower Expo site in Waipu, Taichung, Taiwan, but had to be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] In place of in-person events a digital conference was instead held April 24th - May 3rd, 2021.^[4]

History[edit]

World Orchid Conferences
Conference	Dates	Year	City	Grand Champion	Owner	Ref
1st	October	1954	St. Louis, USA			^[5]
2nd	September	1957	Honolulu, USA			^[6]
3rd	May	1960	London, England			^[7]
4th	October	1963	Singapore			^[8]
5th	April	1966	Long Beach, USA			^[9]
6th	September	1969	Sydney, Australia			^[10]
7th	April	1972	Medellín, Colombia			^[11]
8th	April	1975	Frankfurt, Germany			^[12]
9th	January	1978	Bangkok, Thailand			^[13]
10th	September	1981	Durban, South Africa			^[14]
11th	April	1984	Miami, USA	Vanda DEVA ‘Robert’ AM/AOS SM/11WOC		^[15]
12th	March	1987	Tokyo, Japan	Paphiopedilum micranthum		^[16]
13th	September	1990	Auckland, New Zealand	Cymbidium Gladys Whitesell		^[17]
14th	April	1993	Glasgow, Scotland	Paphiopedilum rothschildianum ‘ Mont Millais’ FCC/RHS/AOS	Eric Young Orchid Foundation	^[18]
15th	September	1996	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Cattleya nobilor ‘Matalia’	Bio Orchids	^[19]
16th	April	1999	Vancouver, Canada	Rhyncattleanthe Haw Yuan Gold 'O-S'	Ming-Kun Wu, Taiwan	^[20]
17th	April	2002	Shah Alam, Malaysia	Paphiopedilum rothschildianum ‘Giant Wings’	Tokyo Orchid Nursery, Japan	^[21]
18th	March	2005	Dijon, France	Calanthe striata ‘Wössen’ AM RHS	Glanz Wössner Orchideen, Germany	^[22]
19th	January	2008	Miami, USA	Paphiopedilum Michael Koopowitz	Krull-Smith, Zellwood, Florida	^[23]
20th	November	2011	Singapore	Cycnodes Taiwan Gold ‘Orchis’	Orchis Floriculturing Inc., Taiwan	^[24]
21st	September	2014	Johannesburg, South Africa	Angulocaste Olympus ‘Honey’	Francois Vorster	^[25]
22nd	November	2017	Guayaquil, Ecuador	Dendrobium parvulum 'Gigi'	Ecuagenera	^[26]
Virtual*	April 23-26	2021	Taichung Waipu Park Area, Taiwan	Vkt. Jinn Feng Orange 'Golden Plum'	GoldenWaterAgricutureCo.,Ltd	^[27]
23rd	Feb. 25 - 28	2024	Tainan, Taiwan			^[28]

References[edit]

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