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

Paperback • 2001 • English

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

By Eric Hansen

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About the book

The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable world of the orchid and the impossibly bizarre array of international characters who dedicte 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 internationa...Show more

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ISBN

9780679771838

Publisher

Vintage Books USA

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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