Based on the text of the family Orchidaceae published in The European Garden Flora II, this book provides botanists and orchid growers with a means for the identification of orchid species in general cultivation. The main part of the text (updated and with an improved layout) consists of descriptions of the 900 species included; these descriptions are accompanied by references to published illustrations and other useful information, and are made accessible by means of keys to the genera and the species. Numerous line drawings of diagnostic features help to make the keys and descriptions easy to understand and use. A brief introduction (covering the structural features of orchids important in identification, some information on cultivation and a list of general references) and a comprehensive index complete the book.
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"...a well-done and useful book for any library serving hobbyists or those interested in botany." Marit S. MacArthur, American Reference Books Annual
"...this book was carefully prepared and is valuable for identifying cultivated orchid species." Chin Chu, HortScience
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HABIT: plants usually with rhizomes, sometimes with root-tubers, growing in soil, on rocks or as epiphytes some (not ours) without chlorophyll; aerial roots frequent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Orchid Society Bulletin, Orchid Digest, Orchidaceae Brasilienses, Edwards's Botanical Register, New Guinea, Opera Botanica, Die Orchidee, Orchideen Europas, Costa Rica, West Indies, Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Kew Bulletin, The Laelias, Flora Brasilica, Kew Magazine, The Genus Cymbidium, Wilde Orchideeen van Europa, Orquideas de las Americas, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Sri Lanka, Illustration Horticole, Las Orquideas de El Salvador, South Africa, Orquideas Venezolanas, The Orchadian New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
HABIT: plants usually with rhizomes, sometimes with root-tubers, growing in soil, on rocks or as epiphytes some (not ours) without chlorophyll; aerial roots frequent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Orchid Society Bulletin, Orchid Digest, Orchidaceae Brasilienses, Edwards's Botanical Register, New Guinea, Opera Botanica, Die Orchidee, Orchideen Europas, Costa Rica, West Indies, Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Kew Bulletin, The Laelias, Flora Brasilica, Kew Magazine, The Genus Cymbidium, Wilde Orchideeen van Europa, Orquideas de las Americas, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Sri Lanka, Illustration Horticole, Las Orquideas de El Salvador, South Africa, Orquideas Venezolanas, The Orchadian New!
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- Orchids of Papua New Guinea by Andree Millar on 9 pages
- Genus Cymbidium by David Du Puy on 6 pages
- The West Indies (Country Fact Files) by Alison Hodge on page 343
- Orchids of India by Bose on page 111
- The Alpine Garden (Royal Horticultural Society Collection) by Christopher Grey-Wilson on page 67
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