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Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain
British Cactus & Succulent Journal
The Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain
Cacti and Succulents
Author: Graham Charles
Publisher: Crowood
Published: 2014-04-30
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 1847977863
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beautifully illustrated and highly accessible, this essential guide to cacti and other succulents is both a practical manual and a source of reference and inspiration for all enthusiasts. More than 250 different species or genera, and their natural habitats are described.Topics covered include the unique nature of succulents; the natural environment; history, classification and nomenclature; watering, feeding, general care and propagation; pests and diseases; profiles of cacti and other succulents. Beautifully illustrated with 420 colour transparencies.
Bibliography on Seed Morphology
Author: Hans Arne Jensen
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1998-06-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789054104506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seeds are a vital part of life on earth. They are fundamental for plant reproduction, and many seeds play an important role in the diet of man and domestic and wild animals. Knowledge of the appearance of seeds - seed morphology - is of great importance to botany and seed identification in relation to: seed setting, quarantine work, forensic work, seed poisening, studies of seed dispersal, seed banks and archaeological studies.;This bibliography contains 3775 references and is divided in two parts: handbooks, and articles and monographs. In the latter the bibliographical reference is supplemented by information of importance to seed identificaiton: genera mentioned in articles, keys, descriptions, drawings, photograph, scanning electron micrographs, anatomy and chemical methods. The index of authors contains the names of an extensive number of authors, cited in the bibliography, and in the index of genera more than 3900 genera, described in one or more of the publications are cited.
Aloes
Author: Tom Reynolds
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2004-01-23
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0203476344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aloes are a large genus of plants, about 450 species, from sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and parts of Arabia. Many species are widespread in warm or tropical semi-arid regions, yet the distribution of others is limited to a few living in desert or wet mountainous regions. While some species have been adopted as medicinal plants since ancient time
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The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants
Author: James Cullen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-08-11
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 0521761514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume 2 contains accounts of the first 71 families of Dicotyledons, including the Aizoaceae and Cactaceae (large and important families of succulents), as well as many tree families (Juglandaceae, Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Ulmaceae) and popular herbaceous plants (Ranunculaceae, Papaveraceae, Cruciferae).
The European Garden Flora
Author: Stuart Max Walters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780521361712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the third volume in a series of six and contains accounts of the first 48 families of dicotyledons, including many well known trees. The series is a manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants throughout the world, concentrating specifically on Europe.
