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Botanist and writer Sandra Knapp... confesses to having been both 'fascinated and slightly repelled' by orchids, put off by this garishly dressed family-the second largest in the world with over 30,000 species. But the sweep, intelligence and research on display in Extraordinary Orchids, a lavish, oversize volume, will surely push the reluctant closer to admiration. Wall Street Journal

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Sandra Knapp is Merit Researcher in the Plants Division at the Natural History Museum in London and also President of the Linnean Society. She has spent many years collecting plants in tropical Central and South America. She is an expert on the plant family Solanaceae, which includes such economically important species as the potato and tomato, and is the author of several books including Flora, Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon and The Gilded Canopy.

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