The Orchids of the Philippines Hardcover – January 1, 2001

The book is complete, full ilustrated, with really worthy informations. I recommend it for people who love Bulbophyllums or just enjoy a great book.

"The Orchids of the Philippines" is one of a few books on indigenous Philippine orchids currently available. The more comprehensive ones are hard-to-find and very expensive. This book is priced just right. It contains morphological, cultural and geographical info on famous Philippine orchids and their lesser known relatives.I am not a botanist so I cannot claim that this book covers the latest-and-greatest Philippine orchid genera and/or species. I am, however, a great lover of our own native orchids and I know about the more common and popular ones. This book, written by a non-Filipino, about Philippine orchids, continues to educate me, a Filipino. The more I know about our own native orchids, the more I appreciate and admire their beauty, diversity, and rarity!Curiously, the word "orchid" has no direct Tagalog translation.

Obwohl die Lieferung gemäß Ihrer Angaben nicht am 12.Februar, sondern erst am 22. Februar bei mir Eintraf, bin ich zum Höchst Lob bereit. Denn meine Nachfrage beim Vertreiber des Buches, wurde sehr rasch Beantwortet und auch die Erklärung der Verspätung war plausible. Zudem hat mich der Zustand des Buches sehr positiv überrascht, so dass ich nur Best noten verteilen kann.

I was looking forward to get this book after I ordered it. But after the first 5 minutes reading it, I came down to earth. The book is nice but, the pictures are quite small and only one picture of the flower is showing the species in varying quality. The book contains only two full page pictures at the beginning and a map of the Philippines. This is very very very diappointing.The text on the cover says: "It will become the important reference and identification work for botanists, naturalists and orchid growers throughout the world." For sure some hobby growers will like it, but to say that it will be important for botanists is an euphemism.The books contains less than one third (or less) of all species that are occuring on the Philippines. Furthermore several genus are not even depicted in this book.