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Publisher
University Press of Florida
Description
"First published in 2002, "Wild Orchids of Florida" was the very first field guide for this orchid-rich state, and it inspired many to try their hand at orchid hunting. Due to its overwhelming popularity, native orchid expert Paul Martin Brown follows up with this newly revised and expanded edition, updated to provide the latest developments in orchid research. The new guide contains 200 new points of fact."--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A kaleidoscopic journey into the world of nature's most tantalizing flower, and the lives it has inspired. The epitome of floral beauty, orchids have long fostered works of art, tales of adventure, and scientific discovery. Tenacious plant hunters have traversed continents to collect rare specimens; naturalists and shoguns have marveled at orchids' seductive architecture; royalty and the smart set have adorned themselves with their allure. In Orchid...
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
An illustrated guide covers every aspect of orchid care, from selecting the best plant to enabling ideal growing conditions, in a beginner's primer that profiles 120 varieties and includes maintenance instructions for easy through more challenging options.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Orchids are the largest family of plants in the world. With 30,000 known species, you could acquire a different orchid every day for eighty years and still not grow them all. Back in the realm of reality, readers of this beautiful book can quickly and easily find the orchids that are right for them--which ones will thrive on a windowsill, which prefer artificial lights, and which need a greenhouse; which are for beginners, which for experts. Once...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
The blood orchid is a rare flower that holds the secret to eternal life and a fortune to the pharmaceutical company that finds it. Led by a two-fisted soldier of fortune, a scientific expedition is sent deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and bring back samples of the legendary plant. Battling their way upriver, the explorers brave poisonous insects, ferocious crocodiles and savage headhunters, unaware that they are being stalked by an even...
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Melody Ellison is impressed by her sophisticated new friend, Leah Roth, but she wishes her cousin Val would stop being so standoffish to Leah! Melody meets Leah's grandfather, Dr. Roth, a botanist who escaped the Nazis and brought a rare and valuable Lady's Slipper orchid with him to America. When Melody's own grandfather becomes a suspect in a burglary, Melody turns to Val and Leah for help. Yet Leah seems to be hiding something, something to do...
Author
Publisher
Middle River Press
Pub. Date
©2016
Description
"This is the fifth book in a series of books about the adventures of young Charlie Pierce, one of South Florida's earliest pioneer settlers. The story follows teenage Charlie and his fearless little sister Lillie in the late 1880s, when South Florida was America's last frontier. Together with his Seminole friend, Tiger, Charlie experienced one of the most intriguing and exotic lives imaginable. His adventures as a young boy growing up in the wild,...
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Series
Publisher
Mims House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
How long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem? On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchids. One flower, the Madagascar star orchid, fascinated him. It had an 11.5 inch nectary, the place where flowers make nectar, the sweet liquid that insects and birds eat. How, he wondered, did insects pollinate the orchid? After experiments, he made a prediction. There must be a giant moth with a 11.5 inch proboscis,...
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