Title: Good coffee table book for Orchid lovers
Review: My summary:Easy to page though in an hour or two. There is a real photo of each orchid listed in this book. I am not a botanist or a taxonomist -- I don't want a textbook or 900 page field guide.This is mainly a picture book to give you a name for an orchid you find out by a trail or in your back yard.It has cross-reference listings of common and botanical names -- helpful for google searching or if you think it might be one of a few orchids listed.The photos are good, but the drawings in this manual lack the detail to know what the plant is really supposed to look like. You really cannot tell leaf shape, plant shape, size, etc from the drawings.
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