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Rare and Exotic Orchids

Joel L. Schiff

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Description:An orchid can grow indefinitely if properly cared for as it produces new growth as the old withers and dies. In fact, the Singapore Botanic Gardens has a thriving Tiger Orchid that was planted in 1861, and a Bulbophyllum ornatissimum, purchased at auction in 1887 is still growing at the Glasnevin National Botanical Gardens in Dublin. But they do require that the orchid grower reproduce within limits the growing conditions of their native habitat. And sometimes those conditions are of steamy South American jungles or montane rainforests of India, the highlands of New Guinea, or coastal lowlands of Brazil. On the other hand, that is one of the features that make orchids so fascinating. Living as many people do in their own urban jungle, orchids allow us to bring some of these exotic places and their flora into our lives. Many of us will not ever visit any of the places where exotic orchids are endemic, but we can still have a sample of the place, growing in our own homes. Orchids also represent something we have lost. Many generations of our ancestors once lived in forested regions in close quarters with Nature and for many of us that is not even a distant memory of even our grandparents. But traces of it are still in our DNA and providing homo sapiens with nature escapes and wilderness is essential for coping with modern living. Another feature of orchids that make them so fascinating is that they are like no other family of flowering plants. The endless diversity of form, color, and scent of their flowers, the unusual appearance of their vegetative growth, often with pseudobulbs beneath their leaves, and of course the unusual habit of a great many orchids (about 70%) to grow in the branches of trees as epiphytes, all mark out orchids as a group of flowering plants unlike any other on Earth. For the above reasons, many people speak of growing orchids as they would of an addiction, say to heroin. Once you have started with a single plant, that leads to two, then three, then before you know it they have taken over your house and next thing you are building a greenhouse. Or, you find yourself posting enumerable photos of orchids on Pinterest, Flickr or other image sharing websites so that you do not even have to grow orchids to become obsessed with them. Just their exotic beauty is enough for some. This book is intended for those who have started along this long slippery slope, who know a little already about these unusual plants but now wish to go deeper into some of the technical details and also what can be learned from the fascinating ongoing orchid research. But this is not a book about how to grow orchids. There are many fine books already on this subject. This is a book about why what you are growing is so special and why you have this persistent addiction that you cannot seem to shake. And it is also a book about sex, since orchids have mastered more techniques than are found in the Kama Sutra. In no way can this book exhaustively cover all orchid genera and species. It is a selection only of interesting and unusual orchids and perhaps the reader’s favorite exotic orchid is not included. But many others will be, so enjoy this fascinating journey.Available at amazon.com, springer.com and other booksellersWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rare and Exotic Orchids. To get started finding Rare and Exotic Orchids, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 186

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Springer

Release: 2018

ISBN: 3319700332

Description: An orchid can grow indefinitely if properly cared for as it produces new growth as the old withers and dies. In fact, the Singapore Botanic Gardens has a thriving Tiger Orchid that was planted in 1861, and a Bulbophyllum ornatissimum, purchased at auction in 1887 is still growing at the Glasnevin National Botanical Gardens in Dublin. But they do require that the orchid grower reproduce within limits the growing conditions of their native habitat. And sometimes those conditions are of steamy South American jungles or montane rainforests of India, the highlands of New Guinea, or coastal lowlands of Brazil. On the other hand, that is one of the features that make orchids so fascinating. Living as many people do in their own urban jungle, orchids allow us to bring some of these exotic places and their flora into our lives. Many of us will not ever visit any of the places where exotic orchids are endemic, but we can still have a sample of the place, growing in our own homes. Orchids also represent something we have lost. Many generations of our ancestors once lived in forested regions in close quarters with Nature and for many of us that is not even a distant memory of even our grandparents. But traces of it are still in our DNA and providing homo sapiens with nature escapes and wilderness is essential for coping with modern living. Another feature of orchids that make them so fascinating is that they are like no other family of flowering plants. The endless diversity of form, color, and scent of their flowers, the unusual appearance of their vegetative growth, often with pseudobulbs beneath their leaves, and of course the unusual habit of a great many orchids (about 70%) to grow in the branches of trees as epiphytes, all mark out orchids as a group of flowering plants unlike any other on Earth. For the above reasons, many people speak of growing orchids as they would of an addiction, say to heroin. Once you have started with a single plant, that leads to two, then three, then before you know it they have taken over your house and next thing you are building a greenhouse. Or, you find yourself posting enumerable photos of orchids on Pinterest, Flickr or other image sharing websites so that you do not even have to grow orchids to become obsessed with them. Just their exotic beauty is enough for some. This book is intended for those who have started along this long slippery slope, who know a little already about these unusual plants but now wish to go deeper into some of the technical details and also what can be learned from the fascinating ongoing orchid research. But this is not a book about how to grow orchids. There are many fine books already on this subject. This is a book about why what you are growing is so special and why you have this persistent addiction that you cannot seem to shake. And it is also a book about sex, since orchids have mastered more techniques than are found in the Kama Sutra. In no way can this book exhaustively cover all orchid genera and species. It is a selection only of interesting and unusual orchids and perhaps the reader’s favorite exotic orchid is not included. But many others will be, so enjoy this fascinating journey.Available at amazon.com, springer.com and other booksellersWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Rare and Exotic Orchids. To get started finding Rare and Exotic Orchids, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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