This monograph by the curator of the Orchid Herbarium at Kew considers the history, biology, evolution, conservation, cultivation, and classification of cypripediums, the most popular of the temperate orchids.
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This monograph by the curator of the Orchid Herbarium at Kew considers the history, biology, evolution, conservation, cultivation, and classification of cypripediums, the most popular of the temperate orchids.
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A concise and must-have manual for Cypripedium devotees.,
This review is from: The Genus Cypripedium (Botanical Magazine Monograph) (Hardcover)
Specialist books such as this are few and far between. It is a good thing then, that this book is by no means a let down in any department. It contains concise and factual information about the genus Cypripedium, ranging from cultural details, to taxonomic and nomenclatural discussion, and including information on the distribution and relative rarity of the species the genus encompasses. The photography and art presented within is of fantastic quality, and helps to complete a very thorough and admiral work covering these North American and Pan-European gems. Superlatives abound.
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This review is from: The Genus Cypripedium (Botanical Magazine Monograph) (Hardcover)
This monograph includes a little bit of everything, as usual for one of Dr. Cribb's books: history, morphological analysis, ecology, and even culture (this last by Holger Perner). The largest part of the book is devoted to descriptions of the species, each accompanied by a beautiful ink drawing and a map showing the taxon's distribution. Most, if not all, are also illustrated with a color painting and/or a photograph in situ. This book is essential for anyone with the least interest in these orchids. And even if you weren't interested before--you will find this book to be seductive, and you will find that you are enthralled long before you read every page.
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Detailed accounts of the vegetative morphology of slipper orchids are provided by Pfitzer (1889) and Stoutamire (1990). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lip longitudinal section, staminode convex, dorsal sepal, ovary transverse section, terrestrial herb, ovary cross section, fen soil, sepal elliptic, sepal erect, lava gravel, sepal ovate, lateral sepals, slipper orchids, glandular hairy, inner integument, native orchids, yellow lip, tropical orchids, artificial hybrids, green sepals, basal half, leaf mould, flower colour, creeping rhizome Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, Eleanor Catherine, Native Orchids, British Isles, World Orch, Harcourt Davies, Sakhalin Island, Acta Phytotax, British Colombia, Kodiak Island, Orchid Soc, Central America, Feddes Rep, North Carolina, Reginald Farrer, Robert Rolfe, Nova Scotia, Stirling Dickinson, Werner Frosch, Acta Horti Gothoburg, Alpine Gard, Arcuinervia Subgen, Asa Gray, Cypripedium Plate, European Russia New!
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Detailed accounts of the vegetative morphology of slipper orchids are provided by Pfitzer (1889) and Stoutamire (1990). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lip longitudinal section, staminode convex, dorsal sepal, ovary transverse section, terrestrial herb, ovary cross section, fen soil, sepal elliptic, sepal erect, lava gravel, sepal ovate, lateral sepals, slipper orchids, glandular hairy, inner integument, native orchids, yellow lip, tropical orchids, artificial hybrids, green sepals, basal half, leaf mould, flower colour, creeping rhizome Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, Eleanor Catherine, Native Orchids, British Isles, World Orch, Harcourt Davies, Sakhalin Island, Acta Phytotax, British Colombia, Kodiak Island, Orchid Soc, Central America, Feddes Rep, North Carolina, Reginald Farrer, Robert Rolfe, Nova Scotia, Stirling Dickinson, Werner Frosch, Acta Horti Gothoburg, Alpine Gard, Arcuinervia Subgen, Asa Gray, Cypripedium Plate, European Russia New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 3
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- Orchid Biology (Orchid Biology Series) (Volume 6) by Joseph Arditti in Back Matter
- The Slipper Orchids by Esme Hennessy on page 232
- Orchids of the Western Great Lakes Region (Bulletin / Cranbrook Institute of Science) by Frederick W., Case in Back Matter
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