Orchid in Lore and Legend

Name: Orchid in Lore and Legend
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ISBN: 9780881926163

ISBN-10: 0881926167

ISBN-13: 9780881926163

Edition: 2000

Authors: Luigi Berliocchi

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The orchid is the most evocative of flowers, inspiring in some of its admirers a fanaticism akin to madness, as demonstrated in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief. This elegant survey of the orchid treats its place in legend and suggests the impact that these exotic plants---whose "exuberance and heavy, sensual beauty ... seemed to bear witness to some original sin"---had on the temperate European mind. Berliocchi chronicles the adventurers and scientists who introduced these marvels, discusses their place in the arts from literature and magic to cuisine and concludes with accounts of the most important genera and their cultivation. Splendidly illustrated with period engravings and botanical…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.06" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Luigi Berliocchi (1953-1999) was a lecturer in garden history at the University of Reggio Calabria. He also wrote the text for Vanished Gardens of Rome as well as a study of the origin and history of Mediterranean plants and their presence in art.



Foreword



Preface



Myths and Legends



From Prehistory to History


Prehistory


Antiquity in the East


Antiquity in the West


Modern History



Patrons and Hunters



Arts and Customs


Literature


Art


Magic


Religion


Medicine


Edible Orchid Products



The Plant


Habitat


Plant Structure and Behavior



The Genera


Cattleya


Cymbidium


Dendrobium


Epidendrum and Encyclia


Laelia


Miltonia and Miltoniopsis


Odontoglossum


Oncidium


Paphiopedilum and Other Slipper Orchids


Phalaenopsis


Vanda


European Orchids



Growing Orchids


Sources


Index of Orchids