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- ↑ Ronnie Godeanu, Nature assessed Sep 30, 2008 Nature:Obsession with Orchids
- ↑ Susan Orlean, "The Orchid Thief" 1998 Random House publishing The Orchid Thief
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This Wikipedia article incorporates text from Orchidelirium: when love turns to obsession (4 August 2021) published by the State Library of Queensland under CC BY licence , accessed on 22 September 2021. - ↑ Comprehensive Orchid Culture Guide Orchid History
- ↑ Price, Cheryl Blake (2013). "VEGETABLE MONSTERS: MAN-EATING TREES IN "FIN-DE-SIÈCLE" FICTION". Victorian Literature and Culture. 41 (2): 311–327.
