Several orchids are national flowers. Given the large number of orchids (in the hundreds of thousands counting species and hybrids), the relatively few to acquire a national flower status are a very select group indeed. Even in this exalted company, Vanda Miss Joaquim, Singapore's National Flower, stands out. However, beyond its beauty and patriotic value, the National Flower is a plant with an interesting history, complex biology and major horticultural value. This book was written to celebrate its beauty, recall its history, explain its biological complexity and rationalize its horticulture. It is also intended to be a repository of the knowledge which has accumulated about Vanda Miss Joaquim.
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Dr. Hew Choy Sin is a Professor of Botany at the National University of Singapore. He is a member of several learned societies and serves as a consultant to orchid farms and advisor to orchid societies in Singapore and Malaysia and the Orchid Research Center in China. Dr. Yam Tim Wing is a Senior Research Officer at the Singapore Botanic Gardens in charge of the orchid breeding program which involves vandaceous orchids, Dendrobium and other hybrids for lowland tropics. Dr. Joseph Arditti is emeritus professor of biology at the University of California, Irvine. Since 1969 he has visited NUS regularly to carry out research.
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This is not a review because I am one of the authors. All I want to do is point out that there is a heated debate about the origins of Vanda Miss Joaquim. Mr. Johnson is strongly opposed to the views of the authors of this book. I have rated the book with only one star because comments with no stars cannot be posted.Joseph Arditti
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I have found too many errors in this book. The facts that the Singapore authors should know, they have wrong. Holttum was never Ridley assistant (page 46)! The text is confusing: page 60 "only one parent, Vanda teres is foreign."; on page 225 the first sentence, on the same subject, reads "two orchids from foreign countries". Captions under photographs are confusing as on plate 14. The most serious error is that many of the citations are not in the "Literature Cited" making a check of validity impossible. The problems I had are summed up in the dates for Agnes Joaquim's death: the book on page 41 gives 1898,on page 205 is a picture of her tombstone showing the date as 1899.
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