Acanthaceae to Myricaceae

Water Willows to Wax Myrtles

Robert H Mohlenbrock

Veteran botanist, scientific author, and professor Robert H. Mohlenbrock brings the full depth of his expertise and scholarship to his latest book, "Acanthaceae to Myricaceae: ....

Beziehungen von Bodenpflanzen und Vegetationseinheiten frühlingsgeophytenreicher Laubmischwälder der Region Hannover zum pH-Wert und zur Stickstoff-Nettomineralisation des Bodens (Befunde aus den Jahren 1997 und 1998)

Andrea Wundram

The Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar 2009

Maria Thun and Matthias Thun

This is the original biodynamic sowing and planting calendar, now in its 47th year. This useful guide shows the optimum days for sowing, pruning, and harvesting various ....

Bloom

The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel

Amy M King

Starting from the botanical craze inspired by Linnaeus in the eighteenth century, and exploring the variations it spawned - natural history, landscape architecture, polemical ....

Botanikkens Historie i Norge

Edited by Per M Jorgensen

The history of botany in Norway. ....

Botany Illustrated

Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families

J Glimn-Lacy and PB Kaufman

This easy-to-use book helps make learning botany fun and helps you acquire a wealth of fascinating information about plants. There are 130 pages with text, each facing 130 ....

Botanical Latin

History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology & Vocabulary

WT Stearn

First published in 1966, this book has become accepted worldwide as the standard work of reference on this important subject. With an illustrated guide to descriptive ....

Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes

Edited by Michel Conan and W John Kress

From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, ....

Britton's Botanical Empire

The New York Botanical Garden and American Botany, 1888-1929

Peter Mickulas

In the 1890s, botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton united New York City's private Gilded Age wealth with the expertise of its increasingly well-respected scientific community to ....

Burdock

Janet Malcolm

Over the course of three summers in New England, Malcolm gathered leaves of the burdock plant, a "large rank weed" with medicinal properties "that grows along roadsides and in ....

California's Fading Wildflowers

Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions

Richard A Minnich

Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet ....

The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms

Michael Hickey and Clive King

Comprises over 2400 terms commonly used to describe vascular plants. The majority are structural terms referring to parts of plants visible with the naked eye or with a x10 ....

Citrus

A History

Pierre Laszlo

Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you'll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key ....

Citrus Fruit

Biology, Technology and Evaluation

Milind Ladaniya

Citrus rank among top three fruits of the world with respect to area and production. Grown commercially in more than 140 countries around the world, world production of ....

Compendium of Brassica Diseases

Edited by S.Roger Rimmer, Vernon, I Shattuck and Lone Buchwaldt

A thorough, authoritative, and practical reference for anyone who needs to diagnose and manage disease problems in brassica cops destined for vegetable markets, seeds, oil, and ....

Compendium of Rose Diseases and Pests

R Kenneth Horst and Raymond A Cloyd

The Compendium of Rose Diseases and Pests, Second Edition has been thoroughly updated, expanded, and given a new format with colour throughout to provide the reader with the ....

Current Taxonomic Research on the British & European Flora

Edited by JP Bailey and RG Ellis

Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Leicester in 2003. ....

Cycads of Vietnam

Roy Osborn, Ken D Hill, Hiep T Nguyen and Loc Phan Ke

Only fairly recently has Vietnam become recognised as a country of enormous biological diversity. This is true not only in its fauna but also in its flora. New discoveries ....

Desert Plants

A Curator's Introduction to the Huntington Desert Garden

Gary Lyons

In 2007, the Huntington celebrates the centennial of its spectacular desert garden, one of the largest such collections of cacti and other succulents in the world. Visitors to ....

Dictionary of Indian Plant Gums, Resins, Dyes and Related Products

Chemistry, Botany and Utilization

MIH Farooql

Dictionary of Indian Plants Gums, Resins, Dyes and Related Products is essentially a document dealing with plants of Indian origin but those products from other countries, ....

Discovering Wild Plant Names

John E Stevens

Many wild plant names originate from early Greek, Latin or Old English and through the ages their original meanings have become misunderstood or unknown. ....

Drawn After Nature

The Complete Botanical Watercolours of the 16th-Century Libri Picturati

J de Koning, G van Uffelen and A Zemanek

For over 300 years, the Preussische Staatsbibliothek in Berlin held a most remarkable collection of botanical watercolours. They were catalogued as part of the library's ....

Eden

Tim Smit

With passion and commitment thousands of "small" people built the Eden Project in Cornwall as a symbol of hope in action...We may all have feet of clay, but that ....

Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Lore

DC Watts

Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if ....

The Encyclopedia of Fruit & Nuts

Edited by Jules Janick and Robert E Paull

This major reference offers a comprehensive collection of information on temperate and tropical fruit and nut crops. This book groups entries alphabetically by family and then ....

The Encyclopedia of Seeds

Science, Technology and Uses

Edited by Michael Black, J Derek Bewley and Peter Halmer

The encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference work embracing all major facets of the subject of seeds. This one-volume book gives a unique and authoritative coverage of ....

Enciclopedia Zoobotanica Volumen I (Dicotiledoneas) Tomo II (Leguminosas-Papilionoideas) Fasciculo 4

Fernando Perez Piedrabuena

Treats flowers of the erithrina tree. ....

Extraordinary Leaves

Stephen Green-Armytage and Dennis Schrader

Leaves are everywhere, appearing in an astonishing variety of shapes, colours and textures. They are the unappreciated gifts of nature, worthy of far more extensive study ....

Fencing Paradise

The Uses and Abuses of Plants

Richard Mabey

In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal ....

Figs, Dates, Laurel, and Myrrh

Plants of the Bible and the Quran

Lytton John Musselman

This book celebrates the plants of the Old Testament, New Testament, and Quran. From acacia, the wood of the tabernacle, to wormwood, whose bitter leaves, as absinthe, ....

Flora Arborea de Chile

R Rodriguez, RO Mattei and JM Quezada

"ARBOREAL FLORA OF CHILE" is a book first published in 1984, which describes all the arboreal native trees of continental Chile, the Archipelago of Juan Fernandez and the ....

Flora Ningxiaensis (Two Volume Set)

Edited by Ma Dezi, Lin Huilan, Hu Fuxiu et al

Volume I describes 942 species in 290 genera, 77 families including Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Angiospermae and ....

Forest Canopies

Edited by MD Lowman and NM Nadkarni

The treetops of the world's forests are where discovery and opportunity abound, however they have been relatively inaccessible until recently. This book represents an ....

Fruits and Plains

The Horticultural Transformation of America

Philip J Pauly

The engineering of plants has a long history on this continent. Fields, forests, orchards, and prairies are the result of repeated campaigns by amateurs, tradesmen, and ....

Gardening with Hardy Heathers

David Small and Ella May T Wulff

A timely and comprehensive review of these high-color, low-maintenance garden plants. The sight of a wild landscape covered with heathers in full bloom is breathtaking, so it ....

The Genus Macaranga

A Prodromus

T Whitmore

Macaranga is a genus in the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises trees, treelets and some lianas, many of which are conspicuous large-leafed pioneers of disturbed habitats. Some ....

Handbook of Maize

Its Biology

Edited by Jeff L Bennetzen and Sarah C Hake

Maize is one of the world's highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture. The great adaptability and high yield of maize as a food, ....

Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants

Lewis S Nelson, Richard D Shih and Michael J Balick

Plant poisoning is an important problem in the United States, and exposures to plants accounts for approximately 10% of the annual calls to the nation's Poison Control ....

Handbook of Plant Science, 2 Volume Set

Edited by Keith Roberts

Plant Science, like the biological sciences in general, has undergone seismic shifts in the last thirty or so years. Of course science is always changing and metamorphosing, ....

The Herbarium Handbook

Edited by Leonard Forman and Diane Bridson

Contains chapters on the conservation of herbarium sheets and on the collection and curation of the larger algae. The chapter on computers has been completely rewritten and ....

Hortus Eystettensis Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium ex Variis Orbis Terrae Partibus Singulari Studio Collectarum, Delineatio et ad Vivum Repraesentatio, in Quator Partes Divisus.

Basilius Besler

The first facsimile edition of this classic, originally published in 1613, consists of 3 volumes in the format of 43.5 x 52.00 cm containing the facsimile of the original work ....

Hortus Veitchii

A History of the Rise and Progress of the Nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Together with an Account of the Botanical Collectors and Hybridists Employed by Them and a List of The Most Remarkable of Their Introductions

James H Veitch

Hortus Veitchii was originally published by the famous nursery firm of James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, London in 1906 to commemorate the huge contribution made by this firm to ....

Impresiones Botanicas

JL Castillo

A catalogue of the digital engravings of plants from the Real Botanical Garden of Madrid. The illustrations are all accompanied by explanatory texts. ....

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature 2006 (Vienna Code)

Adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria, July 2005

Edited by J McNeill, FR Barrie et al

The latest edition of the botanical 'bible' for taxonomists. Includes important changes, additions and clarifications. ....

International Daffodil Register and Classified List 2008

Sally Kington

Compiled by Sally Kington, former International Daffodil Registrar, this major reference work brings the RHS cumulative list of daffodil names up to June 2007 and contains ....

The Intelligence of Flowers

Maurice Maeterlinck

This title features a new translation of one of Maeterlinck's four great nature essays. ....

International Poisonous Plants Checklist

An Evidence-Based Reference

D Jesse Wagstaff

Addresses the geographic fragmentation of and confusion in the poisonous plant literature. It provides an international, authoritative, and comprehensive reference for ....

ISTA Handbook on Flower Seed Testing

Edited by Zita Ripka

This handbook is a new project of ISTA to collect the special knowledge in laboratory seed testing of flower seeds. It contains comprehensive laboratory seed testing methods ....

Key to Plants Common on Sand Dunes

Sally Edmondson and Stella Ross Craig

Covers 52 species. ....

Leaves - The Secret Life

LCW Jensen

Three dimensional animations, supported by authoritative narrations, explore the leaf surface and explain the functioning of the guard cells. The viewer is then taken inside ....

La Lista 'Top 50' de Especies Vegetales Amenazadas de las Islas del Mediterràneo

50 Especies Silvestres al Borde de la Extinction, y Las Acciones para Salvarlas.

Edited by Bertrand de Montmollin and Wendy Strahm

The flora of the Mediterranean islands includes many rare and localised species unique to the islands. Some of these are particularly threatened with extinction due to various ....

Louis XIV's Botanical Engravings

Alain Renaux

Louis XIV enjoyed visiting his fruit and vegetable gardens. Enriched with exotic plants by the numerous botanical expeditions that took place during the seventeenth century, ....

Mind-Altering and Poisonous Plants of the World

A Scientifically Accurate Guide to 1200 Toxic and Intoxicating Plants

Michael Wink and Ben-Erik Van Wyk

Written by respected professors of botany and pharmaceutical biology, this is the definitive account of plants and mushrooms used for poison darts, traditional medicine, ....

Modern Botany

Naveen Malaviya

The present book is a textbook on modern topics of Botany. The first chapter of this book is on plasma membrane, wherein, details of transport mechanism is discussed. There ....

Molecular Biology in Plant Pathogenesis and Disease Management, Vol. 1: Microbial Plant Pathogens

P Narayanasamy

Studies on molecular biology of pathogens, infection process and disease resistance, have provided information essentially required to understand the vulnerable stages at ....

Molecular Biology in Plant Pathogenesis and Disease Management, Vol. 2: Disease Development

P Narayanasamy

Studies on the phenomenon of plant pathogenesis (disease development) have been useful to have a deep insight into the interactions between host plant and the pathogen. ....

Molecular Biology in Plant Pathogenesis and Disease Management, Vol. 3: Disease Management

P Narayanasamy

Investigations on various aspects of plant-pathogen interactions have the ultimate aim of providing information that may be useful for the development of effective crop ....

Musa Cliffortiana

Clifford's Banana Plant

Carl Linnaeus

Reprint and translation of the original edition (Leiden 1736). Translated into English by Stephen Freer. With an Introduction by Staffan Muller-Wille. ....

The Naming of Names

The Search for Order in the World of Plants

Anna Pavord

For centuries, some of the most brilliant minds in Europe searched for the rules of nature's game. In a world full of plagues and poisons, many medicines were made from ....

The Names of Plants

David Gledhill

The Names of Plants is an invaluable reference for botanists and horticulturalists. The first section gives an historical account of the significant ....

The North American Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar 2009

Maria Thun and Matthias Thun

This is the 2009 calendar adapted for North American (Eastern Standard Time) dates and times. This useful guide shows the optimum days for sowing, pruning, and harvesting ....

Ornamental Plants of the East Margin of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau of China

Li Rongwei et al

236 species of 62 families, the most of ornamental plant (including alpine and sub-alpine flower plants) growing in the east margin of the Qinghai- Xizang Plateau are ....

Oxford Dictionary of Plant Sciences

Edited by Michael Allaby

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date paperback dictionary of botany available. It was fully revised for the second edition, with over 5500 clear and concise entries; ....

Pachyforms 2: Bonsai Succulents

R Lime

This is the second volume of Pachyforms, a series that focuses on the cultivation of sculptural plants characterized by unusually thick or globose bodies. It is also the ....

Photobiology

The Science of Life and Light

Edited by Lars Olof Björn

Originally published by Springer Netherlands ....

Plants

Their Use, Management, Cultivation and Biology - A Comprehensive Guide

Bob Watson

This wide-ranging and fascinating book is packed full with both biological information about plants as well as practical and instructional advice about how to grow and nurture ....

Plant Embryogenesis

Edited by Maria F Suarez and Peter V Bozhkov

The advent of the postgenome era has brought a remarkable evolution in modern plant embryology. In Plant Embryogenesis, the authors focus on the common developmental ....

Plant Identification Terminology

An Illustrated Glossary

JG Harris and MW Harris

Provides over 1,700 clear illustrations of terms used in plant identification keys and descriptions. It also includes definitions for more than 2,400 taxonomic terms. ....

Plants at the Margin

Ecological Limits and Climate Change

RMM Crawford

Margins are by their very nature environmentally unstable - does it therefore follow that plant populations adapted for life in such areas will prove to be pre-adapted to ....

Plant Names

A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature

Edited by R Spencer, R Cross and P Lumley

The book is a plain English guide to the use of plant names and the conventions for writing them as governed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and the ....

Plant-parasitic Nematodes of Coffee

Ricardo M Souza

This book provides an in-depth review of coffee-parasitic nematodes, which in some regions of the world have decimated plantations since late nineteenth century. ....

Plant Names Simplified

AT Johnson and HA Smith

Reprint of this classic reference, originally published in 1931. The glossary contains well over a thousand entries. ....

Plant Proteomics

Edited by Jozef Samaj and Jay Thelen

Proteomics is the large-scale functional analysis of proteins extracted from intact organisms, tissues, individual cells, or cell compartments, at defined timepoints during ....

Plant Taxonomy

The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative Data

TF Stuessy

The field of plant taxonomy has transformed rapidly over the past fifteen years, especially with regard to improvements in cladistic analysis and the use of new ....

Plants and Vegetation

Origins, Processes, Consequences

Paul A Keddy

Plants make up 99 percent of the world's living matter, provide food and shelter, and control the Earth's climate. The study of plant ecology is therefore essential to ....

Plant Virology Protocols

From Viral Sequence to Protein Function

Edited by Gary D Foster, Elisabeth Johansen, Yiguo Hong and Peter D Nagy

Following the considerable success of the first edition of Plant Virology Protocols, this exciting new edition covers the many new techniques that are now applied to the ....

Poisonous Plants

Global Research and Solutions

Edited by KE Panter, TL Wierenga and JA Pfister

Despite decades of research, poisonous plants continue to be responsible for large economic losses to livestock producers throughout the world. As the expansion into rural ....

Poisonous Plants

A Cultural and Social History

Robert Bevan-Jones

The botanical history of Britain and North West Europe has a dark and a light side. Plants have been used as weapons to harm people, taken deliberately as addictive drugs ....

Practical Plant Identification

Including a Key to Native and Cultivated Flowering Plants in North Temperate Regions

James Cullen

An essential guide to identifying flowering plant families (wild or cultivated) in the northern hemisphere. Details of plant structure and terminology accompany practical keys ....

Preparing Herbarium Specimens

Lyn Fish

Deals with the practical aspects of making good herbarium specimens by concentrating on collecting, pressing, drying and mounting of different types of plants. The special ....

Principles of Horticulture

CR Adams, MP Early and KM Bamford

Principles of Horticulture is an excellent introduction to a wide range of aspects of commercial and leisure horticulture. Written in a highly accessible and readable style, ....

The Private Life of Plants - DVD

David Attenborough

Presents a fascinating view of the plant world, where events happen on a different timescale from ours. Though not obvious to the naked eye, plants are constantly on the ....

Progress in Botany, Volume 69

Edited by Ulrich E Lüttge, W Beyschlag and Jin Murata

With one volume published each year, this series keeps scientists and students current with the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. This ....

Progress in Botany, Volume 70

Edited by U Lüttge, W Beyschlag, B Büdel and D Francis

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present ....

Propagation Techniques

Julie Hollobone

Nothing is quite as rewarding for the gardener as the sight of a crop of seedlings that he has propagated himself. Propagation involves the removal of part of the plant (the ....

A Revision of the Lecanora Dispersa Complex in North America

Lucyna Sliwa

The Lecanora dispersa group in North America is revised based on about 1900 specimens from 25 herbaria. The following 19 species are recognized in the study area: Lecanora ....

Revision of Miconia sect. Chaenopleura (Miconieae, Melastomataceae) in the Greater Antilles

Walter S Judd

In the Greater Antilles, Miconia sect. Chaenopleura comprises 47 species of montane shrubs and small trees. The group is likely monophyletic and is characterized by flowers ....

Root Feeders

An Ecosystem Perspective

Scott N Johnson

Presents a comprehensive review of knowledge on root herbivores and illustrates their importance within ecosystems. Chapters discuss problems of visualizing the organisms in ....

The Royal Horticultural Society Treasury of Trees

Writers and Artists in the Garden

Charles Elliot

This charming anthology brings together a wealth of poetry and prose from a broad range of writers, from the Roman natural historian Pliny and the Chinese poet Po Chu-I, to Sir ....

Sasanqua

Edited by Xu Biyu

Camellia japonica, C. reticulata, C. sasanqua and C. nitidissima are the four important ornamental plants in the genus CAMELLIA. ....

Saxifrages

The Definitive Guide to 2000 Species, Hybrids and Cultivars

Malcolm McGregor

An enthusiast's tale of saxifrages in the wild and in garden cultivation. The exquisite symmetry of the star-shaped blooms of saxifrages has captivated gardeners for centuries. ....

Sclerotinia Diseases of Crop Plants

Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

GS Saharan and Naresh Mehta

Sclerotinia is one of the most devastating and cosmopolitan soil borne plant pathogen that infects more than 500 species of plants worldwide including field crops, fruit ....

Secret Life of Plants: 5 Volume Set

Ferns, Flowers, Mosses, Pines & Leaves

L Jensen and A Chung

Set of 5 DVDs combining images of living plant stages with computer simulations of internal structures. Bridges the gap ....

Seeds of Adventure

In Search of Plants

Peter Cox and Peter Hutchison

This book is the story of the extensive travels made by two Peters in search of plants in Turkey, India, Nepal, Bhutan, China and Tibet. On nearly every expedition, they ....

The Seed Plants in Panxi Area of Sichuan Province

Liu Jian-Lin et al

This book describes 4558 species in 180 families of seed plants in Panxi area in Sichuan province of China. ....

Solanaceae and Convolvulaceae: Secondary Metabolites

Biosynthesis, Chemotaxonomy, Biological and Economic Significance

Eckart Eich

This comprehensive and interdisciplinary handbook provides a bird's-eye view of two centuries of research on secondary metabolites of the two large Solanales families, ....

Structure and Function of Plants

Jennifer W MacAdam

Plant anatomy and physiology and a broad understanding of basic plant processes are of primary importance to a basic understanding of plant science. These areas serve as the ....

Suttons Seeds

A History 1806-2006

Earley Local History Group

The world famous seed company, Suttons, started 200 years ago at 13 King Street, Reading. For 170 years they contributed greatly to the economic and social life of the ....

Systematics of the Australian species of Rhodamnia (Myrtaceae)

Neil Snow

In Australia, nineteen species of Rhodamnia (Myrtaceae) are recognized, based on data from morphology and scanning electron microscopy, and are assigned to five informal ....

Taxonomic Literature: Supplement VII (F-Frer)

A Selective Guide to Botanical Publications and Collections with Dates, Commentaries and Types

Laurence J Dorr and Dan H Nicolson

Taxonomy and Plant Conservation

Edited by Etelka Leadlay and Stephen Jury

This book illustrates the key role played by taxonomy in the conservation and sustainable utilisation of plant biodiversity. It is a tribute to the work of Professor ....

Vegetables I

Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodicaceae and Cucurbitaceae

Edited by Jaime Prohens and Fernando Nuez

This significant work will be high on every horticulturalist's Christmas list. ....

Veldgids Nederlandse Flora

Henk Eggelte

A new, easier-to-use identification method has been applied in this guide covering all Dutch wild-life plants. Conveniently arranged, compact keys use clearly visible ....

Weeds of California and Other Western States (2-Volume Set)

Joseph M DiTomaso

This encyclopedic yet easy-to-use guide is the most comprehensive guide to weed identification in the West ever published. Covering 262 individual entries, including a ....

Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Restoring Wildflowers to the Countryside

Charles Flower

A traditional meadow full of wild flowers is a rare sight today, but it is not too late to restore them and to create new ones. ....

Woody Starch Plants of China

Xie Bixi and Chen Xun

There are three parts in this book. The first part describes woody starch plants resources. Total 242 species in 21 families are mentioned. For each species the ....

World Checklist and Bibliography of Campanulaceae

Thomas G Lammers

The bellflower Family Campanulaceae is found throughout the world, and includes a large number of species important in ornamental horticulture. For the past quarter century, ....

World Checklist of Myrtaceae

Rafale Govaerts et al

Myrtaceae is the ninth largest flowering plant family; it is economically important in the production of timber, gums, essential oils, fruits and spices, and contains many ....