Orchidées d'Europe: Fleur et pollinisation

Description:

Text French. Thes magnificent book (more than 1000 photos) is an enlarged and revised version of the English edition of 2011. The result of many years of study and photographing orchids throughout Europe, it contains many extremely detailed pictures published here for the first time. It covers all aspects of the orchid flower: photographs of gynostemium, microscopic sections, SEM images, floral patterns, pollinating insects photographed in the field, rosettes and fruit. The text sets out in detail the relationship between the flower and its pollinator. All European genera are covered. Appendices provide comprehensive information on pollinators, fruiting rate, self pollination, the number of seeds per capsule and even, for many species, the angle of orientation of the caudicles!