British Cactus & Succulent Journal
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cactus
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cactus
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Author : Steven A. Hammer
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Lithops
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,33 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Cactus
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Page : 658 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Cactus
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Author : Howard Scott Gentry
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816523955
New in paperback Spring 2004, this is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow.
Author : Nathaniel Lord Britton
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Science
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Cactus
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Author : David Yetman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816546371
Towering over deserts, arid scrublands, and dry tropical forests, giant cacti grow throughout the Americas, from the United States to Argentina—often in rough terrain and on barren, parched soils, places inhospitable to people. But as David Yetman shows, many of these tall plants have contributed significantly to human survival. Yetman has been fascinated by columnar cacti for most of his life and now brings years of study and reflection to a wide-ranging and handsomely illustrated book. Drawing on his close association with the Guarijíos, Mayos, and Seris of Mexico—peoples for whom such cacti have been indispensable to survival—he offers surprising evidence of the importance of these plants in human cultures. The Great Cacti reviews the more than one hundred species of columnar cacti, with detailed discussions of some 75 that have been the most beneficial to humans or are most spectacular. Focusing particularly on northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States, Yetman examines the role of each species in human society, describing how cacti have provided food, shelter, medicine, even religiously significant hallucinogens. Taking readers to the exotic sites where these cacti are found—from sea-level deserts to frigid Andean heights—Yetman shows that the great cacti have facilitated the development of native culture in hostile environments, yielding their products with no tending necessary. Enhanced by over 300 superb color photos, The Great Cacti is both a personal and scientific overview of sahuesos, soberbios, and other towering flora that flourish where few other plants grow—and that foster human life in otherwise impossible places.
Author : John Pilbeam
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Page : 333 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Crassulaceae
ISBN : 9780902099807
Author : Tom Reynolds
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2004-01-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0203476344
Aloes are a large genus of plants, about 450 species, from sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, and parts of Arabia. Many species are widespread in warm or tropical semi-arid regions, yet the distribution of others is limited to a few living in desert or wet mountainous regions. While some species have been adopted as medicinal plants since ancient time