BOOK SUMMARY OF ORCHID FEVER
A seductive journey into the obsessive, outrageous, and mesmerizing world of
orchids.
From the steaming jungles of Borneo to the hallowed hallways of Kew Gardens,
from the clandestine orchid nurseries of Europe to the peat bogs of northern
Minnesota, here are luscious, sexy flowers, orchid smugglers, fist-fighting
botanists, moths with twelve-inch-long tongues, and government officials who
raid orchid nurseries with attack dogs and automatic weapons. Strange tales of
insect pollinator fidelity, the orchid ice cream makers of eastern Turkey, and
man-crushing killer orchids weighing half a ton are blended with stories about a
wide range of gentle people whose passion in