Endersby, Jim, <br/><br/>
Orchid :  a cultural history / 
Jim Endersby. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago press,  2016. 
 - viii, 292 pages :  illustrations (some color) ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-283) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: imagining orchids -- Censored origins -- The lesbian boy -- The uses of orchids -- Red book, black flower -- Utopian botany -- The signature of all things -- The name of the orchid -- Making a family -- A second Adam -- Artificial to natural -- Myths of orchids -- Orchidmania -- The blooming aristocracy -- Orchis bank -- Every trifling detail -- Beautiful contrivances -- The scramble for orchids -- Lost orchids -- Cannibal tales -- Savage orchids -- Long purples and a forked radish -- Queer flowers -- Creation and consolation -- Sexy orchids -- Boy's own orchids -- Manly orchids -- Frail orchids -- Deceptive orchids -- Orchids in orbit -- Endangered orchids -- Fragile specialists -- The spider orchids of Sussex -- Conclusion: an orchid's-eye view? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781842466292 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Orchids--History.<br/>Orchids in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>635.9344 END