Julie Carbonell wrote:
"Orquideas Nativas del Tachira"What a wonderful book! A must for any orchid library or orchid nut The amount of information is awesome, well written and concise, easy to understand even for those who have no knowledge of Spanish. The pictures, quite good, with excellent true colors. And the book itself, a joy to read, good quality paper and binding, good type size, easy to read and the information readily available.>As a fellow Venezuelan I'm very proud of this book the work of Ing. Agro. Cesar Fernandez
I'd like to agree with Julie's praise for this book. The author, Cesar Fernandez, travelled throughout Tachira, the westernmost state of Venezuela, searching all orchid habitats to make as complete an inventory as possible. In doing so, he found several completely new species (Telipogons, Cyrtochilums, Lepanthes - maybe a few others) as well as species not reported from Tachira or from Venezuela. The species are described in a standard format that includes habitat information and nearly every one has a good color photo of the flower. The introductory sections that describe the organization of the book and the format of the individual entries are in both Spanish and English, so as Julie said, even non Spanish speakers will be able to understand most of the rest of the book.
Now that we know that George Norris is distributing the book, it's possible to reward Cesar for a wonderful accomplishment while helping George at the same time.
For those in northern California, Cesar will be speaking at the September meeting of the Orchid Society of California, September 20 at the Garden Center at Lake Merritt in Oakland.
-- Steve Beckendorf Berkeley, California
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