Media Formulae

All components listed below are for mixing in to bring up to 1 liter total volume unless otherwise specified.

• Allan medium, for germination of European terrestrials
• Anders European (for terrestrial European species)
• Anders medium (modified Malmgren’s for cyps)
• Blumenfeld Medium (For  culture of endophytes of Corallorhiza, Neottia, and Limodorum.)
• BM medium
• BM1 medium
• BM2 medium
• BM4 medium
• Bridgen medium (Homebrew/improvised medium)
• Burgeff, Sladden modification (Media for tropical epiphytic orchids)
• Chang (Homebrew/improvised medium)
• Clements’ isolation medium
• CM1
• Curtis medium (Used to  germinate Aplectrum, Cypripedium, and Spiranthes)
• Curtis solution 5
• Czapex-Dox agar
• Dactylorhiza germination and replate media
• Dextrose-peptone medium
• Eg1 (Burgeff, 1936)
• Eg1 (Borris, 1970)
• Eg1 (Fast, 1978)
• Eg1 (Linden, 1980)
• Eg1 (Riether, 1990)
• European (Eilhardt, 1951)
• European II (Eilhardt, 1951)
• Fast medium (Fast, 1974)
• Fast medium (Linden, 1980)
• Fast medium (Anderson, 1990)
• Fernandez media (Several  formulae for improvised media)
• Fertilizer based medium for European terrestrials
• FIM (Fungus Isolating Medium)
• FN
• Fournier (Homebrew/improvised medium)
• Galambos (Media for tropical epiphytic orchids)
• GD medium
• H1 oat medium (symbiotic cultures)
• H2 oat medium (symbiotic cultures)
• H4 oat medium (symbiotic cultures)
• Harvais medium (For  germination of cypripediums)
• Harvais medium from  stock solution (Steele, 1995) (For germination of cypripediums)
• HPZ
• Harvais micronutrients (as adjunct to orchid media)
• Hyponex medium (Homebrew/improvised medium)
• Jodrell-medium
• Karasawa medium
• Kyoto solution, modified
• Knudson B (Early media for tropical epiphytic orchids)
• Knudson C (Knudson, 1946) (Early media for tropical epiphytic orchids)
• Knudson C (Stoutamire, 1964) (Early media for tropical epiphytic orchids)
• Knudson C (Arditti, 1982) (Modernized version of early media for tropical epiphytic orchids)
• Knudson C (Anderson, 1990) (Modernized version of early media for tropical epiphytic orchids)
• Knudson C (Morel, 1965) Morel modification
• Lindemann Orchid Medium
• Lucke (SBL-Medium)
• Lucke TGZ-L'
• Lucke O4
• Lucke modified
• Macdonald media (Homebrew/improvised medium)
• Malmgren medium, Americanized formulation (For germination of cold-growing terrestrials, especially cypripediums)
• Malmgren’s medium, variation
• Mead and Bulard medium
• Melin-Norkrans, modified (For culturing mycorrhizal symbionts)
• Microelement solution (May be used as an additive to virtually any medium)
• Murashige and Skoog (1962)
• N3f
• NB-1
• NB 8X
• Norstog medium
• Oats Media for Symbiotic Propagation
• OSP1 (Homebrew/improvised medium)
• PDA
• Penningsfeld medium
• Pfeffer medium
• Pfeffer salt solution
• PhytoTechnology O 139 (Commercially available media from PhytoTechnology)
• PhytoTechnology O 156 (Commercially available media from PhytoTechnology)
• PhytoTechnology P 668 (Commercially available media from PhytoTechnology)
• PhytoTechnology P 748 (Commercially available media from PhytoTechnology)
• PhytoTechnology T 849 (Commercially available media from PhytoTechnology)
• PhytoTechnology V 505 (Vacin and  Went modified basal salt mixture)
• PhytoTechnology V 891 (Vacin and  Went modified basal salt medium)
• RAGA B
• Ramin medium
• RE for Paphiopedilum
• Scaglia's variation on Knudson (Germination of tropical epiphytes)
• Sigma P-0931 (Commercially available media from Sigma)
• Sigma P-6668 (Commercially available media from Sigma)
• Sigma P-1056 (Commercially available media from Sigma)
• Singapore
• SM-organic
• Stephan medium
• Stoutemeyer and Cooke (Homebrew/improvised medium)
• Tashima medim
• Terrestrial medium for seed germination
• TGZ-N
• Thomale
• Thompson medium
• Vacin and Went medium
• Veyret medium
• VOV sowing medium (For European and American terrestrials)
• VOV replate medium (For European and American terrestrials)
• W2
• Wetsteyn media (For European terrestrial species)
• ZAK medium

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