Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Plants
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2012
64 pages
978-1-4629-0729-8 (ISBN)
Description
Learn all about tropical plants and flowers with this with this useful and portable reference book.
This handy field guide introduces approximately 60 plant species found in the Tropics. Trees, shrubs, flowers and fruits are all presented in full color. Included are exotic and beautiful blooms, plants with utilitarian uses and some of the more extraordinary members of the plant kingdom. Each entry is described in detail, and the expert botanical information is included, along with interesting historical anecdotes. This book will delight lovers of tropical flora.
Periplus Handy Pocket Guides are practical field guides, useful for identifying various natural objects ranging from plants and animals to gemstones and seashells. Each page of each title throughout the series is filled with clear, precise photographs and informative text. Scientific and local language names are given.
This handy field guide introduces approximately 60 plant species found in the Tropics. Trees, shrubs, flowers and fruits are all presented in full color. Included are exotic and beautiful blooms, plants with utilitarian uses and some of the more extraordinary members of the plant kingdom. Each entry is described in detail, and the expert botanical information is included, along with interesting historical anecdotes. This book will delight lovers of tropical flora.
Periplus Handy Pocket Guides are practical field guides, useful for identifying various natural objects ranging from plants and animals to gemstones and seashells. Each page of each title throughout the series is filled with clear, precise photographs and informative text. Scientific and local language names are given.
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Screwpine
- Tree Fern
- Bird's Nest Fern
- Gingers
- Banana Plant
- Cordyline
- Codiaeum
- Aroids
- Tongkat Ali
- Datura
- Anatto
- Blue Pea
- Coconut Palm
- Traveler's Palm
- Coco-de-Mer
- Sugar Palm
- Nypa Palm
- Sago Palm
- Lontar Palm
- Talipot Palm
- Jackfruit
- Breadfruit
- Keluak
- Durian
- Opium Poppy
- Clove Tree
- Kapok Tree
- Teak Tree
- Oil Palm
- Rubber
- Bamboo
- Rattan
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Betel Nut Palm
- Betel Leaf Vine
- Plumeria
- Hibiscus
- Ironwood
- Tree of Heaven
- Vanda Orchid
- Tiger Orchid
- Amazon Waterlily
- Sacred Lotus
- Keng Hwa
- Lady of the Night
- Cannonball Tree
- Rafflesia
- Pitcher Plants
- Dillenia
- Java Olive
- Ficus
- Index
