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Succulent Compositae A Grower's Guide to the Succulent Species of Senecio & Othonna

Handbook / Manual Identification Key
By: Gordon D Rowley(Author)
238 pages, 324 colour photos and colour illustrations, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Strawberry Press
Succulent Compositae
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  • Succulent Compositae ISBN: 9780912647128 Hardback Dec 1994 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks
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Over 80 species of the largest of all Families of flowering plants are cherished (or ought to be cherished) by lovers of succulents. Yet they have never been made the subject of a book to themselves. This partly springs from confusion and controversy over naming. They are recognised here under just two genera, Senecio and Othonna, and range from fleshy shrubs to lowly creepers, from tiny trees to caudiciforms ideal for lovers of bonsai. All have their own highly individual "composite" flower heads.

There is no up-to-date identification key, and illustrations are few and far between. Included are some of the commonest windowsill succulents, such as the ‘Candle Plant’ (Senecio articulatus), yet, amazingly, this has not been given a proper botanical description until now.

Gordon Rowley has been collecting and studying succulent Compositae for over forty years, and now oflers this handbook for collectors and growers of them. lt is not a monograph: that must wait until the species have been typified and surveyed more thoroughly in habitat. But a provisional set of names and synonyms has been provided, and an attempt at a key – difficult, as the plants wondrously transmute when pampered in cultivation. Cultivation details cover all types from the unstartable to the unstoppable. Non-botanists should find the abundant illustrations a help in naming and getting to know these astonishingly diverse, rewarding and ever-surprising succulents.

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Handbook / Manual Identification Key
By: Gordon D Rowley(Author)
238 pages, 324 colour photos and colour illustrations, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Strawberry Press
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