Orchid Fever
Subtitle: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: February 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780679451419
Subjects: Orchids; Nursery growers; Ornamental Plants; Non-Classifiable; Gardening / Horticulture; Plant collectors; Gardening/Plants; Orchid industry; Essays & Travelogues; Flowers - Orchids; Gardening / Flowers / Orchids; Hansen, Eric
First sentence: There is something distinctive about the sight and sound of a human body falling from the rain forest canopy.
Description: Explores the lesser-known political and bureaucratic adventures surrounding the orchid; reveals its esoteric uses, from elephant medicine to aphrodisiac; and considers its horticultural mysteries and the lengths to which some have gone for its cultivation.