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Book CITES and Slipper Orchids  a User s Guide

Download or read book CITES and Slipper Orchids a User s Guide written by H. Noel McGough and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2006-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the series of CITES User's Guides covers the genera Cypripedium, Paphiopedilum and Phragmipedium. Highly sought-after in trade, these orchids are strictly regulated by CITES. This is the first book that outlines in a user-friendly fashion how the CITES controls apply to slipper orchids. It includes a fully illustrated PowerPoint training presentation, with speaker notes, on CD-ROM. The text is in English, French and Spanish.

Book The Slipper Orchids

Download or read book The Slipper Orchids written by Tessa A. Hedge and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an absorbing and attractive account of these unique and fascinating plants, 104 life-sized illustrations in colour, superbly executed in the medium of watercolour, of all five genera of the subfamily Cypripedioideae are presented in one volume for the first time. The plants selected for presentation include most of the species that are commonly grown in cultivation as well as carefully chosen representatives from among the primary and complex hybrids. Each of the exquisite colour plates is accompanied by a comprehensive text, which details the species' distinguishing features, their distribution in the wild, their natural habitats and the history of their introduction into cultivation. -- Jacket.

Book Tropical Slipper Orchids

Download or read book Tropical Slipper Orchids written by Harold Koopowitz and published by Timber Pr. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive, informative manual on how to grow, collect, and hybridize a variety of beautiful slipper orchids, offering detailed descriptions of a wide range paphiodpedilum and phragmidpedium orchid species, as well as essential care, cultivation, and plant selection guidelines.

Book Hardy Cypripedium

    Book Details:
  • Author : Werner Frosch
  • Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781842464649
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hardy Cypripedium written by Werner Frosch and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main feature of this book is the array of spectacular and beautiful photography of the 50 species and 100 hybrids of Cypripedium. The accompanying text includes plant descriptions, distribution, ecology, habitat and habit, as well as cultivation methods and details of nurseries offering slipper orchids. Other sections cover the history, morphology, ecology and conservation of Cypripedium.

Book The Slipper Orchids

Download or read book The Slipper Orchids written by Catherine Cash and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents both the botanical and horticultural aspects of Cypripedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium, and Selenipedium, with information on hybridization.

Book Slipper Orchids  Paphiopedilum

Download or read book Slipper Orchids Paphiopedilum written by Bruno Friesen and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book should not be seen as a work of science but as a book that is easy to read for the lover of orchids and especially for the lover of Paphiopedilum. It is intended for the connoisseurs who share the same inclination for this amazing flower. The book sets out to give the reader all round knowledge of the genus Paphiopedilum. It starts with the orchid hunters and how this increasing knowledge piloted the cultivation and multiplication of these amazing plants. This knowledge leads to the hybridization of different intra- and inter-subgenera to create man-made flowers of miraculous beauty. The book continues with the nomenclature of Cypripedieae its genera, sub-genera and species and varying opinions of it, followed by the cytogenesis of the genus Paphiopedilum, the colour management of its flowers, anatomy and morphology. The chapter 'Taxonomy' describes its historical development up to the present. The following chapter introduces all species of the genus Paphiopedilum with their specific botanical characteristics. The development of complex hybrids, maudiae type hybrids and multifloral hybrids are explained in detail. The last two chapters deal with some practical aspects of propagation, diseases and pests of the Paphiopedilum plant. All is presented in a unique artistic dialogue with the flowers as shown in all aquarelle paintings and illustration

Book Monograph of all tropical and subtropical Asiatic slipper orchids

Download or read book Monograph of all tropical and subtropical Asiatic slipper orchids written by Guido J. Braem and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ladys  Slipper Orchids of India

Download or read book Ladys Slipper Orchids of India written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slipper orchids of Borneo

Download or read book Slipper orchids of Borneo written by Phillip James Cribb and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Genus Paphiopedilum

Download or read book The Genus Paphiopedilum written by Phillip Cribb and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Orchids and Their Conservation

Download or read book Orchids and Their Conservation written by Harold Koopowitz and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in memory of Lillian "Mom Siegert" by Claude and Clara Mounce.

Book The Scent of Scandal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Craig Pittman
  • Publisher : Florida History and Culture
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9780813060569
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Scent of Scandal written by Craig Pittman and published by Florida History and Culture. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Non-Fiction "FANTASTIC. If I did not know most of the main players I would have thought the author had a vivid and twisted imagination."--Paul Martin Brown, author of Wild Orchids of Florida "A fascinating true story of obsession, greed, and lust for the unobtainable. Reminds me a great deal of The Maltese Falcon. This rare flower is definitely the stuff that dreams are made of."--Ace Atkins, author of Devil's Garden and Infamous "Pittman has captured the extreme competition, unique characters, and general insanity that often typify the orchid world. The Scent of Scandal exemplifies how passion and profit can overrule common sense and the law."--Scott Steward, former associate editor, North American Native Orchid Journal After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world. The collision between Selby's scientists and the smugglers of Phrag. Kovachii, a rare ladyslipper orchid hailed as the most significant and beautiful new species discovered in a century, led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and criminal charges. It made headlines around the country, cost the gardens hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and led to tremendous internal turmoil. Investigative journalist Craig Pittman unravels this tangled web to shine a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--which may protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame--that they will ignore everything, even the law.

Book Orchid Conservation

Download or read book Orchid Conservation written by Kingsley W. Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Action Plan for Cypripedium Calceolus in Europe

Download or read book Action Plan for Cypripedium Calceolus in Europe written by Jean Devillers-Terschuren and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slipper Orchids

Download or read book Slipper Orchids written by Robin Graham and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains

Download or read book Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains written by Stanley L. Bentley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide showcases the unmatched beauty and diversity of the native orchids of the southern Appalachian mountains. Based on Stanley Bentley's many years of nature study, it covers the 52 species--including one discovered by Bentley and named after him--found in a region encompassing western Virginia and North Carolina and eastern West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The entry for each orchid provides the plant's scientific and common names, a description of the flower (including color, shape, and size), and information on the time of flowering, range, and typical habitat, all in the context of the southern mountains. A range map accompanies each description, and Bentley's own superb photographs are an additional aid to identification. Using straightforward language yet incorporating the most up-to-date scientific information and nomenclature, the book will be welcomed by amateur naturalists or professional botanists looking for species in the field and by those who simply enjoy photographs of beautiful wildflowers.