Little Book of Orchids
Mark Chase; Maarten Christenhusz; Tom Mirenda
ISBN 10: 0711253935 ISBN 13: 9780711253933
Verlag: Quarto Publishing Group â€" Ivy Press, 2020
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Orchids are elegant, exotic and mysterious. Discover 75 amazing examples in this beautiful little book.
One in every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid, and they have been around since the dinosaurs. These popular and fascinating plants have evolved to thrive in a wide variety of habitats, and come in a huge array of colours and designs – developed to ensure they are pollinated, and thus survive.
Using beautifully coloured engravings, this book showcases a select few from this remarkable plant family. Featuring showy species, such as the Queen of Sheba and the spectacular big lip, as well as those with delicate petals, such as the royal butterfly and the felt orchid, this book illustrates the startling hues and striking forms that make orchids such popular plants. Ingenious flowers abound, with the vampire dragon, monkey-face and black fiddle orchids providing dramatic blooms, while several species, such as the bee orchid, are masters of mimicry, designed to fool insects into thinking they have found a mate.
Get to know these fabulous flowers in this handy little book.
Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:
Mark Chase is a senior research scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He co-edited Genera Orchidacearum and has contributed to more than 500 publications on plant science.
Maarten Christenhusz is a botanist who has worked for the Finnish Museum of Natural History and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is deputy editor of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
Tom Mirenda is the Director of Horticulture, Education and Outreach at the Hawaii Tropical Botanic Garden and the former Orchid Collection Specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. He frequently lectures on orchid ecology and conservation in the US and abroad, and is a columnist for Orchids, the magazine of the American Orchid Society.
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Titel: Little Book of Orchids
Verlag: Quarto Publishing Group â " Ivy Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: As New
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