Field Guide to Fynbos features over 1,000 species from the Cape Floristic Region – home to one of the world’s richest floras. This fully updated edition focuses on the most common and ‘showy’ plants. An introduction unpacks the world of fynbos – including origins, diversity, climate and adaptations – and is followed by a photographic key and descriptions of the fynbos families. Species descriptions are accompanied by photographs, distribution maps, comparisons with similar species, and notes on traditional uses. For botanists and amateurs alike, this will remain an indispensable guide to South Africa’s most renowned flora. Sales points: written by an expert in the field, fully revised and updated, will enable identification of a vast array of fynbos species, glorious full-colour photographs of all featured species, key to plant families for easy ID.
- ISBN13 9781775845904
- Publish Date 30 May 2018 (first published 7 September 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 February 2024
- Publish Country ZA
- Publisher Struik Publishers (Pty) Ltd
- Imprint Struik Nature
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 520
- Language English