European Garden Flora 6 Volume Hardback Set: The European Garden Flora: A Manual for the Identification of Plants Cultivated in Europe, Both Out-of-Doors and under Glass: Volume 6 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0521420970 ISBN 13: 9780521420976

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Riassunto

The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants and has been designed to meet the highest scientific standards. The vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed nurseryman, gardener and landscape architect, as well as to the professional botanist. Volume VI concludes the Flora and contains accounts of 38 families of dicotyledons, including the largest family of flowering plants, Compositae (with over 190 genera), plus many other genera of horticultural importance such as Calceolaria, Penstemon, Hebe, Solanum, Buddleia and Sencio. Comprehensive keys are provided at the level of family, genus and species and line diagrams are included to illustrate important diagnostic features of critical taxa. Reference is made to useful illustrations and taxonomic accounts, and a small amount of guidance on cultivation is provided for many genera.

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Recensione:

'This is a set of volumes that should feature in every horticultural college reference library, and which is the ideal reference point wherever thorough and accurate plant knowledge is required.' Maggi Brown, Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

'... the completion of this work is a marvellous achievement, and it is going to be a standard reference work for years to come ... should be an essential part of any garden or botanical library.' Christopher Whitehouse, Curtis's Botanical Magazine

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This concluding volume contains accounts of 38 families of dicotyledons, including the largest family of flowering plants, Compositae, plus many genera of horticultural importance. Keys are provided at the level of family, genus and species and diagrams are included to illustrate diagnostic features of critical taxa.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521420970
• ISBN 13: 9780521420976
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 756
• Redattore: The European Garden Flora Editorial Committee