Plants - Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Ornamental & Garden Plants
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Overview
This concise guide to identifying flowering plants covers aesthetic and botanical information about flora from around the world. Presented are illustrations and explanations of reproductive parts, variations in floral structure, and nomenclature and plant families. The dissection process for flowers, techniques of flower arranging, and methods of observing structure for identification are clearly described. Plant families common to Australia are illustrated with examples of cultivated and wild plants.
About the Author:
Ian Clarke works in the plant identification service at the National Herbarium of Victoria. He is a former tutor with the Council of Adult Education in Melbourne. Helen Lee is an honorary research fellow in botany at La Trobe University. She is a member of the Royal Society of Victoria and the Australian Systematic Botany Society.
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Lancaster (geology, Arizona State U.) reports on investigations of dune forms, processes and sediments in the Namib Sand Sea of southwestern Africa, which are used to develop models for the formation of dunes and sand seas and their rock equivalents. A detailed presentation of floral dissection, the methods of observing floral structure, and the application of these to identification. Thoroughly illustrated with clear line drawings and eight pages of color plates. Most of the examples occur naturally, or in cultivation, in south-eastern Australia, but the principles of plant identification are applicable anywhere. Acidic paper. Available in North America from ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
November 15, 2003
Publisher
Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, c2003.
Pages
292
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780522850604