Wild Orchids Book: "DECEPTIVE BEAUTIES" Beautiful Photos

In very good condition, hardcover with dust jacket. 150 full color photographs.

Writer Michael Pollan and National Geographic photographer Christian Ziegler tell of the weird and wily life of wild orchids in which we learn not only where these flowers bloom -- from the Arctic to semi deserts to rocky mountainsides -- but how their shapes, colors, and scents have evolved to fool pollinating male insects...mimicking the pheromones and appearance of female insects, "so much so that some male bees prefer sex with the orchids over sex with their own kind."
Also covers the "orchidelirium" of the Victorian era with tales of the orchid-mad braving all manner of weather and wilderness to find them, the obsessive amounts of time and money propagating, hybridizing and nurturing them, and simply staring at them.

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