Author | : Marinda Koekemoer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Plants |
ISBN | : 9781919976921 |
Author | : Marinda Koekemoer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Plants |
ISBN | : 9781919976921 |
Author | : Craig Hilton-Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Endangered plants |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Goldblatt |
Publisher | : Timber Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1604699213 |
Learn how to identify the most important temperate plant families Based on the most up-to-date research, Temperate Garden Plant Families spans the spectrum from Acanthaceae (the acanthus family) to Zingiberaceae (the ginger family), and reflects the current scientific consensus about the family status of the most popular garden genera. Introductory information includes an overview of family classification, plant nomenclature, and plant morphology. The comprehensive A–Z of plants includes profiles that include information on the number of species and genera, plant form, flowers, fruit, and a short description. Each profile is illustrated with color photographs and botanical illustrations. Botanists, horticulturists, gardeners, and students will all welcome this authoritative yet accessible reference.
Author | : Braam van Wyk |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 2943 |
Release | : 2013-08-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1775841049 |
This comprehensively updated and expanded edition of the region’s best-selling field guide to trees offers much, much more than the highly successful first edition. Fully updated text (including additional species entries) and distribution maps, numerous new photographs and a new 87-page section of full-tree photographs makes this well-loved guide even more indispensable in the field. Southern Africa has a rich variety of tree species, with an estimated 2 100 indigenous species and more than 100 naturalised aliens. Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa describes and illustrates more than 1 000 of these, focusing on trees that are the most common and most likely to be encountered. Species are logically arranged in 43 groups based on easy-to-observe leaf and stem features, and each account is illustrated by full-colour photographs of the plant’s diagnostic parts. The text also touches on the practical uses of the plants.
Author | : John Manning |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1920544879 |
Field Guide to Wildflowers of South Africa describes more than 1 100 of the shrubs and herbs of the region, highlighting the most conspicuous species and those most likely to be encountered across the country. The emphasis is on identifying plants progressively to family, genus and species level: a novel identification aid and easy-to-use keys guide users to the correct family and genus, while individual species descriptions, accompanied by a clear photograph, distribution map and an indication of flowering season, help them to pinpoint the plant. By using the guide, wild-flower enthusiasts at all levels will now be able to accurately identify plants in any part of South africa.
Author | : Christopher D. K. Cook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Aquatic plants |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Goldblatt |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1996-06-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789061913726 |
Part of a series of volumes on the flora of tropical East Africa, this text covers the Iridaceae family.
Author | : Thomas J. Elpel |
Publisher | : Hops Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781892784353 |
Explains the patterns method of plant identification, describing eight key patterns for recognizing more than 45,000 species of plants, and includes an illustrated reference guide to plant families.
Author | : Najma Dharani |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 1561 |
Release | : 2019-03-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1775846091 |
Fully updated and expanded, this third edition of the top-selling Field Guide to Common Trees & Shrubs of East Africa now features more than 520 of the trees and shrubs – indigenous and naturalized exotics – commonly found in the region. Each of the four sections – trees, shrubs, palms and mangroves – is arranged in alphabetical order according to scientific name. The book features: an informative introduction to families. Species accounts describing the plants’ habitat, bark, leaves, flowers and fruit. General and commercial applications and uses in traditional medicine. Almost 2,000 photographs depicting the species, its fruit, flowers and bark. Glossaries, both textual and illustrated, of botanical and medical terms. An invaluable ID guide to the trees and shrubs in gardens, parks and along roadsides of East Africa.