What happened to the idea of, say Cattleya mem. Jack Fowlie ? Then we know it's a memorial to someone and his real name is in there, not mangled up with "ara" hanging on the end.
(Cattleya x Caularthron x Guarianthe x Laelia x Rhyncholaelia). Only took me 3 clicks to copy/paste this. Naaahhh, it would still be Iwanagaara then. Mine still has a tag that says that and I just bought it from Rafael in February.
Anyway, backing away from this silliness a step or two, it appears to me that even the growers and people who show their orchids are quietly resisting name changes. The one orchid club meeting I went to with Patty, none of the orchids shown there had unfamiliar (aka "new") names and I remarked on that to Patty.
