Tropical Plant Collections: Legacies from the Past? Essential Tools for the Future?
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 92
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Tropical Plant Collecting
Author: Scott A. Mori
Publisher: Tecc Editora
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788565005005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTropical Plant Collecting provides field biologists with information about carrying out fieldwork in tropical America, gathering botanical collections, managing specimens in herbaria, making information about plants available on the Internet, and raising money to fund both expeditions and the preparation of floras and monographs. The book is based on over 40 years of tropical plant collecting in Central and South America by the senior editor and his colleagues. Although traditional field and herbarium techniques are discussed, the book emphasizes how new techniques provided by digital photography, databases, and the Internet have revolutionized plant collecting and data presentation in systematic botany. The audience for this book is tropical biologists and students who, as part of their research, need to gather botanical specimens to document their scientific studies.
Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants
Author: Ahmed Fayaz
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9781742232904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA superb reference for anyone interested in the world's tropical flora.
Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere
Author: Byron E. Martin
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2012-01-02
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1603424652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnjoy fresh java brewed from your own coffee beans or juice from the orange tree growing in a sunny corner of your living room. Laurelynn G. Martin and Byron E. Martin show you how to successfully plant, grow, and harvest 47 varieties of tropical fruiting plants — in any climate! This straightforward, easy-to-use guide brings papaya, passionfruit, pepper, pineapples, and more out of the tropics and into your home. With plenty of gorgeous foliage, entrancing fragrances, and luscious fruits, local food has never been more exotic.
Tropical Flowering Plants
Author: Kirsten Albrecht Llamas
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Published: 2003-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781604694710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research -- and magnificent photography -- that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to the botanist.
Tropical Plants of the World
Author: Jens G. Rohwer
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780806983875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSumptuous photos show off more than 250 dazzling tropical species from the lush terrain of Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa...everywhere the climate nurtures seductively fragrant blossoms and luxuriant foliage. The in-depth information on palms, shrubs, vines, herbs, ferns, water plants, and of course, magnificent, vibrant blooms will prove invaluable to gardeners wanting something special.
The Exotic Garden
Author: Richard R. Iversen
Publisher: Taunton
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea of mixing tropical plants with perennials and hardy annuals has been around since Victorian times. It is now enjoying a newfound popularity because tropical plants are more widely available. Gardeners who want to bring the lush beauty of tropicals to an existing garden, or who want to create an authentic vintage garden, will delight in The Exotic Garden. Although tropicals are novelties in temperate climates, they can successfully be grown anywhere. Iversen shows how tropicals can easily be used as annuals to perk up a garden with color during non-blooming seasons. The author's expert advice shows how to grow tropicals in beds, borders, and containers, select and combine plants, and use the tools of color, texture, and form. Plus, there are special overwintering tips and a full color glossary of more than 100 plants.
The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook
Author: Timothy M. A. Utteridge
Publisher: La Mona Bismarck Foundation
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781842466025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tropics with their lush rainforests are extremely rich in plant life but are still comparatively unknown. Botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have a long tradition of exploring and plant collecting in the tropics, accumulating an unsurpassed practical knowledge of the tropical plants they encounter.This second edition of The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook brings together this knowledge in a guide to the commonly encountered and ecologically important plants of the tropics. Written by Kew's experts, this handbook is based on Kew's Tropical Plant Identification course, which uses classical morphology, as well as more simple 'spot' characters, to teach plant identification.
The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Author: H. M. Burkill
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 996
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA six-volume revision of J.M. Dalziel's 1937 encyclopaedic work, to supplement the 2nd edition of the Flora of West Tropical Africa. In volumes one to five 5260 plants are described, each with its geographical range, habitat and economic attributes. Volume 6 is an aggregation of all the indices in the previous five volumes.
Amy Greenwell Garden Ethnobotanical Guide to Native Hawaiian Plants & Polynesian-introduced Plants
Author: Amy Beatrice Holdsworth Greenwell
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781581780925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Native Hawaiian plants make up a unique flora because of the extreme isolation of the Hawaiian Islands. When the Polynesian settlers arrived, they encountered many plants that they did not know before. Over the course of generations, the Hawaiian people learned how to use the native flora to meet their needs. Along with the crops that the settlers introduced from the South Pacific, native plants became the basis for Hawaiian society and economy. In addition to describing the plants and their habitats, this guide relates the significance that native and Polynesian-introduced plants had to traditional Hawaiian culture, and tells how these plants are still used today." --Back cover.
