Lithops
Lithops

Author: Steven A. Hammer

Publisher: Mitchell Beazley

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Threatened Cacti of Mexico
Threatened Cacti of Mexico

Author: Edward F. Anderson

Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Extensively illustrated in colour, this is an account of 52 taxa of Mexican cacti under threat. Habit and habitats are described and threats analysed together with possible action. A chapter on propagation as a means of safeguarding wild populations is included.

Aloes
Aloes

Author: Tom Reynolds

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2004-01-23

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 0203476344

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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

Cacti and Succulents
Cacti and Succulents

Author: Graham Charles

Publisher: Crowood

Published: 2014-04-30

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 1847977863

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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.

Agaves of Continental North America
Agaves of Continental North America

Author: Howard Scott Gentry

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2004-02-01

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 9780816523955

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New in paperback Spring 2004, this is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow.

The Plant-Book
The Plant-Book

Author: D. J. Mabberley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-06-19

Total Pages: 880

ISBN-13: 9780521414210

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A new edition of one of the most practical and authoritative botanical dictionaries available.