Language: Bilingual in English and Chinese
The book includes 170 species, 1 hybrid, 1 subspecies and 6 varieties belonging to 11 genera. Botanical names and Chinese names are both given to each species, along with brief description of morphological characters, florescence and fructescence, habitat, geographic distribution, conservation status and usage in landscape-gardening. This book is fully illustrated with 93 colour drawings, 44 black and white sketches and 552 colour photographs. Most of the species are shown with pictures of flowers, fruits and whole plants.