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Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy

Eric Hansen

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Description:An adventure into the world of the orchid and the array of international characters who dedicate their lives to it. The orchid is used for everything from medicine for elephants to an aphrodisiac ice cream. A Malaysian species can grow to weigh half a ton while a South American species fires miniature pollen darts at nectar-sucking bees. But the orchid is also the center of an illicit international business: one grower in Santa Barbara tends his plants while toting an Uzi, and a former collector has been in hiding for seven years after serving a jail sentence for smuggling thirty dollars worth of orchids into Britain.We 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 Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy. To get started finding Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An adventure into the world of the orchid and the array of international characters who dedicate their lives to it. The orchid is used for everything from medicine for elephants to an aphrodisiac ice cream. A Malaysian species can grow to weigh half a ton while a South American species fires miniature pollen darts at nectar-sucking bees. But the orchid is also the center of an illicit international business: one grower in Santa Barbara tends his plants while toting an Uzi, and a former collector has been in hiding for seven years after serving a jail sentence for smuggling thirty dollars worth of orchids into Britain.We 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 Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy. To get started finding Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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