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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids (Nature Guide Series)

by Stanley Schuler

ISBN13: 9780671677985
ISBN10: 0671677985
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Brimming with intriguing and practical details and illustrated with 250 beautiful color photos, SimonandSchuster's Guide to Orchids provides everything the enthusiast needs to know about this most colorful and elegant blossom.

An informative introduction gives such useful information as morphology of the flower, ecology, classification, and cultivation. The individual entries that follow describe over 160 cultivated species and offer visual symbols for the temperature and light necessary for optimum growth, as well as whether a particular species has a scent. SimonandSchuster's Guide to Orchids is a spectacular and authoritative reference to this exotic and fascinating flower.

CONTENTS

KEY TO SYMBOLS

INTRODUCTION

ENTRIES

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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: Andry Harmony, September 6, 2008 (view all comments by Andry Harmony)
This book is a very good choice for a beginner who want to identify and know about orchid. Clear explanation and big photograph for every species described, including origin & how to grow.
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780671677985
Other:: Fanfani, Alberto
Other:: Rossi, Walter
Author:: Fanfani, Alberto
Author:: Schuler, Stanley
Publisher:: Touchstone
Subject:: General
Subject:: Flowers, plants and trees
Subject:: Flowers - Orchids
Subject:: Orchid culture
Subject:: Orchids
Subject:: General Nature
Subject:: Nature Studies-General
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Series:: Nature Guide Series
Publication Date:: 19890615
Binding:: Paperback
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Illustrations:: 143 b/w + 67 4/c ill/photos
Pages:: 256
Dimensions:: 7.5 x 4.5 in 13.895 oz

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