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Title: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids by Alec Pridgeon ISBN: 0-88192-267-6 Publisher: Timber Press Pub. Date: November, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Resource Book
Comment: I like this book because it gives information on so many species orchids and has photographs of most of them. If I find a reference to a certain orchid in an online article or auction listing this is the first book I take from the shelf to get more information.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best orchid species encyclopedia - 1100 species!
Comment: Book contains about 298 pages divided into three sections. The sections are Orchid Cultivation & Description (15 pages), Species Encyclopedia (270 pages), and Glossary & Index (13 pages).
The focus of the book is the orchid species encyclopedia. Each orchid is listed with information on genus, tribe, etymology, and a paragraph describing the characteristics of the orchid and its history. About 2/3rds of the species also include a photograph.
Photography is excellent. Hundreds of clear, crisp, and properly identified images fill the book. It is truly an illustrated encyclopedia.
I love this book! It is exactly the kind of reference book I needed. Being new to orchids, I have a difficult time seeing a name in a catalog and relating it to an image of an orchid flower. This book is great, it has helped me discover many new and interesting species. Well, at least they are new to me :-)
My library contains several books on orchid culture that gives me clues to growing the plants. But this book identifies hundreds of genera, and 1100 species. Best orchid species encyclopedia that I've seen. Great reference book!
Rating: 5
Summary: My Orchid Bible
Comment: This book is truly my orchid Bible. There is some information about almost everything you want to know orchids. I find this book useful when trying to find the general characteristics of a genus or even to identify a plant by its flower. Many, many pictures, and they are all beautiful. They lack in the growing tips category, but make up with the fairly detailed species descriptions for the species they cover in the book. Hope this is helpful!
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Title: Botanica's Orchids: Over 1200 Species (Botanica's Gardening Series) by Botanica, Botanica Editors ISBN: 1571457216 Publisher: Laurel Glen Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Taylor's Guide to Orchids : More Than 300 Orchids, Photographed and Described, for Beginning to Expert Gardeners by Judy White ISBN: 0395677262 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Practical Encyclopedia of Orchids by Brian Rittershausen, Wilma Rittershausen ISBN: 0754806308 Publisher: Lorenz Books Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Manual of Cultivated Orchid Species: 3rd Edition by Helmut Bechtel, Phillip Cribb, Edmund Launert ISBN: 0262023393 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 16 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: Ultimate Orchid by Smithsonian Institution, American Orchid Society, Thomas J. Sheehan, Smithsonian Institution, American Orchid Society ISBN: 0789480441 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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