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The Classic Cattleyas, Updated Second Edition

The Classic Cattleyas, Updated Second Edition

Hardcover

Botany & HorticultureFlowers

ISBN10: 057878663X
ISBN13: 9780578786636
Publisher: Chadwick & Son Orchids
Published: Jan 13 2021
Pages: 260
Weight: 2.11
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.30 Depth: 10.60
Language: English

Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of Chadwick & Son Orchids, Inc.

For two centuries tropical orchids have captured the attention of all those who see them. At first mistaken as parasitic plants because they grow wild on the branches of tropical trees, they were considered nearly impossible to cultivate. But in 1818, William Cattley succeeded in flowering one of the first species of the genus that would bear his name, in his stove, or heated greenhouse, in England. These first cattleyas, species from the cloud forests of Central and South America pollinated by particular wasps and bees drawn to their large flowers, are the classic cattleyas whose form defined the essence of tropical orchids for generations to come. Indeed, the color of their flowers became known as orchid.

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