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Modern vandas are the most spectacular of all cultivated orchids, offering a kaleidoscopic range of colors and often blooming six times a year or more with flowers lasting up to eight weeks. This book presents for the first time a history of the introduction of Vanda species and an accurate modern scientific view of the genus, including exciting developments in hybridization. Drawing on 40 years of practical experience, the author offers a comprehensive horticultural treatment that includes the botany, breeding, care, and cultivation of vandas. All major diseases and pests and their control are discussed. Written for the advanced horticulturist, Vandas addresses not only the culture for temperate greenhouses, but also that for tropical and subtropical gardens and shade houses, the places where these orchids are most commonly grown. ... Read more

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A text book with pretty pictures...
If you are a hard core orchid breeder then this book might be right up your alley... but, if your are interested in orchids for other casual reasons this title might be too technical to enjoy. I just read through the first chapter: "The Discovery of Vandas and Their Introduction to the West." Sounds like there could be great tales of early botanical exploration and adventure... it is nothing but a long list of botanists' names, dates and enough latin to choke a Roman... page after page littered with itlalics and brackets and parenthesis. Yuch! Sure, the pictures are pretty, but they're all on glossy paper in the middle of the book, so any hope of helping the reader with a well placed illustration is lost. The book is jam packed with information and facts about culture, breeding and botany. But, be forwarned that the text, written by a Phd., reads like a reaserch dissertation.

A extraordinary book for the beginner vandaceous grower
This is a extraordinary book for anyone who is starting to growvandaceous. It will teach you tricks that you will not find in any otherbook.Everyone that buys this book is lucky enough to be able to share themany many years that Martin Motes has adquired since he first startedgrowing orchids.

A great reference to use for breeding Vanda
This is a great reference to use for breeding and cultivating Vanda, good photographs and very well written.

Excellent Vanda Orchid resource book
The author, Martin Motes, is an expert in Vanda culture and propagation.The book is very well written and contains high quality photographs of Vanda species and hybrids.Anyone interested in Vandaceous orchids,whether beginner or advanced, will thoroughly enjoy this book.

Excellent Reference For Orchid Lovers
This is an incredible book for beginners as well as seasoned orchid growers. It does a wonderful job of covering the botany, history, and culture. The author has done an incredible job of keeping your interest. Itcan also be used as a quick reference. When I first purchased the book Idid so to trouble shoot an ailing vanda. I was able to diagnose and curethe problem in a couple of weeks. After reading the book I realized thereis so much interesting history relating to vandas. This book has given megreat insite into the potential of these beautiful orchids. I have manyorchid books but this is by far my most appreciated and useful reference.The photographs are breath taking. This book will help anyone successfullygrow vandas. ... Read more

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Written by three of Western Australias most prominent orchidologists and featuring over 200 hundred full-page, colour illustrations by renowned botanical artist Pat Dundas, this long-awaited volume is the first modern text cataloguing all known species of Western Australia. This is a comprehensive resource for hardened enthusiasts and initiates alike. Never before has such a wealth of information on Western Australian orchids been available in a single tome. ... Read more

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Far from ideal
This book fails to meet my expectations for either a field guide or a flora; both share the purpose of allowing one to attach a name to a plant. The illustrations are lovely, but the discipline of making them all the same scale and failing to include floral details makes them useless in too many cases. Many of these plants have very small flowers, e.g., Drakea, Corybas, Microtis, and the drawings of the flowers end up being truly tiny, way too small to afford a useful amount of detail. As an example, each illustration of a species of Corybas, plant and flower, is about 1.5 cm square! This will never replace Nicholls (Orchids of Australia), and does not begin to compete with the series issued by Melbourne Universtity Press (The Orchids of Victoria, The Orchids of Tasmania), which manage to convey far more detail in their photographs. This is a pity, because I think the floral details would have been as beautifully done as the whole plant portraits, and would have made this book useful and more beautiful as well.

much more than an orchid guide
this long awaited book lives up to expectations.
It's a beautiful book with great paintings by Patricia Dundas. even you're not interested in orchids, this book is just worth it for the drawings.
From the "guide" side, it contains the latest described species and a small description of each. The drawings being all at the same scale are very useful for the determination. Unfortunately it is too big to take on the field and it's lacking a determination key.
Overall a superb book I recommend to anyone interested in plants in general and orchids in particular.

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Over the past ten years, the orchid industry has been growing at a steady pace in South-East Asia and East Asia. In some Asian countries, orchids have become an essential export item. To maintain this progress, there is an urgent need for a book that will help the region's orchid growers in improving their cultivation and management skills, and guide new students in understanding orchid physiology. This book provides a comprehensive description of tropical orchid physiology relevant to commercial growers, research workers and graduate students. An integrated and unifying theme of tropical orchid physiology, with a clearly written factual text as well as illustrations, is presented over nine chapters. Each chapter is designed to provide comprehensive and up-to-date information on a particular aspect of orchid physiology. This book complements the existing scientific literature available for improving orchid cultivation and setting a new research agenda, especially in the tropics. ... Read more

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A MUST for Researchers and Professional Growers
This book is a wonderful reference. It summarizes many of the great research papers not written in English and can be very hard to get a hold of even in a university setting. This book will be a challenge to the beginning and average orchid growers, but a great tool for those in need of scientific information ... Read more

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This lively examination of the structure, classification, evolution, and ecology of the Orchidaceae will appeal to anyone with an eye for beauty or a bent for natural history. It will provide professional biologists and amateur orchidists alike with a deeper understanding--and a thoroughly new classification--of this, the largest flowering family in the plant kingdom.

The book is richly illustrated, with 95 color photographs and 99 line drawings emphasizing orchid morphology. But in the context of serious orchidology, aesthetic richness is not a superficial vanity. It is the result of evolutionary processes that demand adaptation and reward diversity, and Dressler's exploration of these mechanisms demonstrates how well the orchids have met the challenge, with over 20,000 species, a geographical range from Sweden to Tierra del Fuego, and, at times, as many as 47 different species on a single tree. But both the orchids' success and their profligate beauty are grounded, in part, in their voluptuary nature, and one of Dressler's most engaging themes is the reproductive adaptations, worthy of a Renaissance courtesan, that orchids use to attract, deceive, and manipulate pollinating insects.

The orchid family is actively evolving, providing rich possibilities for comparative study. Yet no one, whether professional or amateur, could reasonably proceed without first addressing Robert Dressler's The Orchids. Its new classification alone, including pollination biology, phyletic trends, chromosome counts, and generic relationships, will stand as a watershed contribution to the field.

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Among the important papers collected in this volume is Robert M. Hamilton's "Flowering Months of Orchid Species Under Cultivation," which records the number of incidences of flowering in each month for an enormous number of species & varieties over a 150-year period. ... Read more

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Auto-pollination of Orchids, subterranean orchids, water relations of orchids, Dactylorhiza review And much more

Joseph Arditti received his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, and is now Professor in the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology at the University of California, Irvine. His research has centered on orchid physiology and development. He is co-author, with A. S. Dunn (University of Southern California), of Experimental Physiology: Experiments in Cellular, General, and Plant Physiology.

Contents of Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives, Volume V:

1. Orchids in My Life - Frits W. Went

2. The Western Australian Fully Subterranean Orchid, Rhizanthella gardneri -
Kingsley W. Dixon, John S. Pate, and John Kuo

3. Water Relations in Orchids - Russell Sinclair

4. Auto-pollination in the Orchidaceae - Paul M. Catling

5. A Review of the Genus Dactylorhiza - Leonid V. Averyanov

6. Power and Passion: The Orchid in Literature -
Martha W. Hoffman Lewis

7. Perspectives of Tropical Orchids in Space Research -
T M. Czerevczenko and I. V Kosakovskaya

Appendix: Flowering Months of Orchid Species Under Cultivation -
Robert H. Hamilton
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Native orchids deserve conservation!
This book, a collaboration between D.S. Correll and Oakes Ames and his famous botanical illustrator wife, Blanche Ames (with additional drawings by Gordon Dillon), is an invaluable resource to anyone wanting to understand the diversity of North American orchids and their botany. Taxonomic names have changed, in some cases, but that does not take away from the beautiful illustrations nor the valuable information contained herein. Definitely a must-have for anyone serious about orchid conservation! ... Read more

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"The hundreds of orchid genera and thousands of species can seem unbelievably complex, but they are beautiful, mysterious, and alluring. Therefore we want reliable ways in which to refer to them--ways that will be understood by those who hear us or read our written communications about these plants. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera will become a convenient reference for those many people who are fascinated by orchids. By referring to this guide, one can find a secure mooring for any species of orchid, one that makes it possible to understand its relatives and its place in the galaxy of orchid variation."--from the Foreword by Peter H. Raven

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera is the most comprehensive and extensively illustrated account of orchid genera to date. Its concise entries provide details of nomenclature, classification, original publication, etymology, and geographic range, along with a brief description and color images of representative flowers.

The dictionary describes not only all of the 850 orchid genera that are recognized today but also those genera known only from fossil records, published before Linnaeus, validly published (but not accepted), and invalidly published according to the standards of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, as well as those that have variant names or spellings. In addition to the alphabetic entries, this dictionary includes an introduction to orchid biology, a glossary, a list of taxonomists credited with publishing new orchid genera, key references and bibliographical abbreviation list, and the governing nomenclature rules. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera also features a Foreword by Peter H. Raven and an Introduction on the biology of orchids by David Benzing that describes the August 2007 discovery of the world's oldest unequivically orchidaceous fossil.

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, are extensive botanical gardens dedicated to research and collections of epiphytes, especially orchids and bromeliads, and their canopy ecosystems. The Gardens maintain the most diverse collection of bromeliads in the world and feature over 20,000 plants from some 6,000 species in 1,200 genera from 214 plant families, including 6,000 live orchids. This monumental work is yet another manifestation of the collection-an extension of the Gardens into print. ... Read more

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Excellent reference book
My wife asked me to order this book for her birthday.
I accidentally ordered two copies (maybe I double clicked?) of it.

My wife loves the book, and has shown it to her orchid species study group.

We donated the second copy to the curator of orchids at the San Diego Zoo.
That made me a real hero.It was already on her wish list.

The Marie Selby Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera
Excellent book. Long needed by the orchid community. It can be understood by and useful to beginners and experienced orchidists alike.A must for any orchid library. I thank the team from Marie Selby for this well written concise reference book. ... Read more

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The authors provide a comprehensive worldwide survey of the literature on the methods for multiplying orchid plants using tissue culture techniques. These are the newest techniques derived from current molecular biology research and offer great practical utility for growers of often rare and beautiful orchids. All of the information required to propagate orchids, including detailed how-to protocols for each orchid type and an outline of techniques and procedures, is provided. ... Read more

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Micropropropagation of orchids
Excellent, This book is the best on this matter, It has the micropropagation protocols for every single kind of orchid and a good explanation step by step with charts, tables, pictures.... exceptional. ... Read more

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Recipient of the 1994 Henry Allan Gleason Award of the New York Botanical Garden, this important book delimits several major natural groups within the orchids, suggesting areas that need further research by botanists.Published at $49.95 Our last copies available at $24.98 ... Read more

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Perhaps the finest summary of what is known about orchids.
Robert Dressler combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the taxonomy, genetic makeup, and geographic distribution of orchids with a completely understandable prose devoid of scientific jargon.If one desires to findout about the orchid family as it exists on Earth this is probably the bestsimgle source available. ... Read more

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" ...perhaps the most carefully done and beautiful work on orchids at the state level has been produced by Michael A. Homoya of the Indiana Natural Heritage Program...Mr. Homoya's lifelong interest in orchids comes through clearly on every page of this magnificent book. His firsthand knowledge of each kind of orchid known from Indiana is so vividly described that one gets the feeling of being in the field or at least wanting to get to the field as soon as possible...Mr. Homoya is to be commended for a most outstanding book. It is a must for any orchid enthusiast." - Robert H. Mohlenbrock. All forty-three of the orchids currently growing in Indiana are presented in this handsome volume. Each species account contains a detailed description of the orchid and includes color photographs and range maps for both the state and the country. But this is more than just a state orchid book. Mike Homoya gives us detailed discussions of the orchid genre, reproduction, pollination, habitat, conservation, classification, and finding tips. He includes a checklist of Indiana orchids and an appendix which presents scientific and common names.No expense has been spared to make this book the very best of its kind. It will appeal to naturalists and orchid lovers everywhere. ... Read more

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One of the most beautiful books on native orchids.
Excellent full page, color habitat and close-ups ... Read more

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Illustrated. Formatted for the Kindle. Linked Contents.

CONTENTS.
PREFACE
MY GARDENING
AN ORCHID SALE
ORCHIDS
COOL ORCHIDS
WARM ORCHIDS
HOT ORCHIDS
THE LOST ORCHID
AN ORCHID FARM
ORCHIDS AND HYBRIDIZING
RECOMMENDED READING

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A Chat About Orchids
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2POHPGEXARXVK A Chat About Orchids By Frederick Boyle, First Published In 1893. ... Read more

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CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE:Dr Andrew Joseph Bacon 1933 2009EditorialThe Different Varietal Forms of Arundina graminifolia in Sabah, Borneo by Anthony LambNew Records of Orchidaceae for the Flora of Peninsular Malaysia, 2. Acanthephippium gougahensis, Schoenorchis juncifolia, Thrixspermum anceps and T. latisaccatum by Ong Poh Teck, Phoon Sook Ngoh and Mariam JuttaA New Species of Dendrobium (section Calcarifera) from Kalimantan Barat by Destario Metusala, Peter O'Byrne and Jeffrey J. WoodDendrobium cinnabarinum Rchb. f. (sect. Crumenata A Welcome Addition to Our Collections by Roland Schettler, Heinz Wurster and Jeffrey J. WoodMiscellaneous New Orchids from Sabah and New Combinations in Ascidieria, Cylindrolobus, Jejewoodia and Pinalia by Jeffrey J. WoodNotes on Malesian Cleisostoma: Part 2 by Peter O'ByrneThree New Species pf Dendrobium from Sabah by Jeffrey J. WoodApostasioideae The Least Know Orchid Subfamily by Alexander KocyanClarification of the Status of Thrixspermum raciborskii in Peninsular Malaysia by Ong Poh Teck and Peter O'Byrne ... Read more

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Contents:EditorialSlipper orchids of Mount Kinabalu by Phillip Cribb and Jeffrey J. WoodA new species of Dendrobium (section Calcarifera) from Borneo by Jeffrey J. WOodDendrobium amboinense Hook. (sect. Fugacia): A long-lost species rediscovered by Heinz Wurster, Roland Schettler and Jeffrey J. WOodA revision of Diplocaulobium in Sulawei by Peter O'Byrne and Jaap J. VermeulenThe rare plants and orchid conservatory at the Rimba Ilmu Botanical Garden, Malaysia's first university botanical garden by M. Sugumaran and Y. W. LowNew species of Calanthe from the Malay Archipelago by Phillip CribbChrysoglossum ornatum Blume: A new record for Borneo by Anthony LambPennilabium armanii: A new species from Peninsular Malaysia by Peter O'Byrne, S. N. Phoon and P. T. OngDendrobium jiewhoei: an enigmatic member of Section Calcarifera from Borneo by Jeffrey J. Wood ... Read more