Botanical Orchids

by Jack Kramer

Book Overview

The names of those early orchid hunters are preserved today in the Latin names by which the orchids they discovered are still known. In the last two decades orchids have been subject to extensive hybridisation in the search for novelty and ever more fantastic colours and shapes; indeed thousands upon thousands of hybrids have appeared. Jack Kramer concentrates on the original botanical orchids as they appeared in nature and their habitats. These orchids...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1870673255
• ISBN13: 9781870673259
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Acc Art Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 11.5"