The Oxford Book of New Zealand Plants
Author : Lucy B. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The European Garden Flora Flowering Plants
Author : James Cullen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0521761646
Book Description
The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. 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 gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume 5 completes the series, and includes many important ornamental families, such as Labiatae, Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Acanthaceae, Campanulaceae, and the largest family of Dicotyledons, the Compositae.
The New Oxford Book of Food Plants
Author : John Vaughan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191609498
Book Description
The Oxford Book of Food Plants is a beautifully illustrated compendium of facts about the plants we grow in our gardens and use in our cooking. Gorgeous botanical illustrations are accompanied by accessible yet authoritative descriptions of each plant, along with fascinating historical details and nutritive values. This is a new edition of a classic book — fully updated with the latest nutritional research, as well as beautiful new plates and descriptions of many exotic edible plants that have only recently found their way into our markets and onto our kitchen tables — it is a must-have for anyone who loves good food, cooking, and gardening.
The European Garden Flora
Author : Stuart Max Walters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Botany
ISBN : 9780521420976
Book Description
The Native Trees of New Zealand
Author : John Tenison Salmon
Publisher : Raupo
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
There are more than 220 species of indigenous New Zealand tree, and they are all covered in this book; its scope is complete. Most tree species are described and illustrated in detail; the full tree specimen, the leaf shapes (most at natural size), the bark, the flowers, the fruits. The major trees, such as kahikatea, totara, rimu and kauri, receive special attention; the great tree specimens are reproduced in superb large photographs and some of the fascinating natural cycles - such as the development of flowers and fruits - are recorded in detailed sequences. --Book Cover.
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand
Author : Andrew Crowe
Publisher : Godwit Pub.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
This revised and updated edition describes in detail over 160 native edible plants. Trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are covered, with information on their utilization, in particular by Maoris, their nutritional value, where they can be found and when.
European Garden Flora
Author : Stuart Max Walters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521248594
Book Description
The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental plants. It is designed to meet the highest scientific standards but the vocabulary is kept as uncomplicated as possible so that it is fully accessible to the informed gardener and landscape architect as well as to the professional botanists. Although based upon Europe the series will be an extremely useful reference on plants in cultivation throughout the world. Families, genera and species are described, keys are provided and guidance is given on the cultivation of each genus. Volume I is the first in a series of six; it contains accounts of the ferns and their allies, the conifers and 16 families of monocotyledons, including the Liliaceae, Amaryllidaceae and Iridaceae, to which most of the popular bulbous garden plants belong.
The Rough Guide to New Zealand
Author : Laura Harper
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : 9781858288963
Book Description
Combining the most extraordinary aspects of both wild and cosmopolitan New Zealand, this Rough Guide offers unparalleled coverage of activities and accommodations. of color photos. 80 maps.
The New Zealand Official Year-book
Author : New Zealand. Department of Statistics
Publisher :
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1925
Category : New Zealand
ISBN :
Book Description
The New Zealand Journal of Forestry
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN :
