Orchid Species Culture: Dendrobium

By Margaret L. Baker and Charles O. Baker

Replicating the climate of an orchid's native habitat is a key to the successful culture of a species and its hybrids. This ingenious book provides monthly rainfall and temperature data for the varied habitats of more than 1200 species of Dendrobium, supplemented by detailed cultural recommendations based on the observations of experienced growers.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pages: 875 pp.
  • Book dimensions: 8½ x 11 in. (280 x 215 mm.)
  • Images: numerous charts & tables
  • ISBN-10: 0881923605
  • ISBN-13: 9780881923605

About the authors

Margaret L. Baker

Margaret L. Baker was a frequent contributor to the American Orchid Society Bulletin. She was an avid amateur orchid enthusiast and with her husband Charles previously wrote Orchid Species Culture: Dendrobium and Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, and Pleione published by Timber Press. Margaret Baker died in 2003.

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Charles O. Baker

Charles O. Baker is a former meteorologist with the National Weather Service. With his late wife, Margaret Baker, he wrote Orchid Species Culture: Dendrobium and Orchid Species Culture: Pescatorea, Phaius, Phalaenopsis, Pholidota, Phragmipedium, and Pleione, as well as numerous articles for Orchids and Orchid Digest.

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