A journalist follows a renegade orchid poacher through Florida swamps into a subculture of fanatical plant collectors.
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A journalist follows a renegade orchid poacher through Florida swamps into a subculture of fanatical plant collectors.
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The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested with rare orchids they had stolen from a wild swamp in south Florida that is filled with some of the world's most extraordinary plants and trees.
Laroche had planned to clone the orchids and then sell th...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Botanical sexual metaphors for orchids; brief pornography-business mention
Violence & gore
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Swamp peril and historical plant-hunter deaths; no graphic violence
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present
Political content
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Environmental law, Native American rights, and plant-poaching debates
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Historical references to Seminole hardship and colonial violence
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