The illustrated encyclopedia "Orchids" will open you the amazing world of the orchid family with its exciting variety of species. Most orchids inhabit tropical areas of the globe, primarily rain forests, where they grow high in tree canopies. In temperate countries where there are no beautifully flowering epiphytic orchids, growers and just plant lovers grow them at home and in greenhouses. However, temperate climates have their own orchids - often inconspicuous terrestrial species, outwardly completely unlike their spectacular tropical counterparts. And yet these are also orchids, as you will learn from the last section of the encyclopedia.