This guide covers more than 400 of the most commonly cultivated ornamental plants found in the tropics, identified and beautifully photographed by an expert in tropical botany.The color photographs and accurate descriptions make this book ideal for identifying plants grown in the tropics or cultivated in greenhouses in temperate climates. The characteristics of habit, leaves, flowers, and fruit useful for distinguishing one plant from another are emphasized in the descriptions, which also include discussions of plant relationships, the correct scientific and common names, geographical ranges, any poisonous properties, and other useful and interesting information about each plant.Published at $59.95 Our last copies available at $29.98
- ISBN10 0881924482
- ISBN13 9780881924480
- Publish Date 1 July 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 January 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Timber Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 542
- Language English