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Comprehensive, visually rich orchid cultivation guide.
If you're fascinated by the elegance of orchids, diving into this guide could be a rewarding experience. You'll find the detailed introduction educational, while the specific entries on numerous species will be indispensable as you cultivate these beautiful blooms. The visual symbols for care requirements are particularly user-friendly, helping you create the perfect environment for your orchids.
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ISBN: 9780671677985
Publisher: Touchstone
Date of Publication: 1989-06-15
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.0
(rated by 10 readers)
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Brimming with intriguing and practical details and illustrated with 250 beautiful color photos, Simon & Schuster'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. Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids is a spectacular and authoritative reference to this exotic and fascinating flower.
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Comprehensive, visually rich orchid cultivation guide.
If you're fascinated by the elegance of orchids, diving into this guide could be a rewarding experience. You'll find the detailed introduction educational, while the specific entries on numerous species will be indispensable as you cultivate these beautiful blooms. The visual symbols for care requirements are particularly user-friendly, helping you create the perfect environment for your orchids.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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