The Kew Plant Glossary

Author: Henk Beentje
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
"Plant dictionary clearly defines over 4,250 entries .... This revised edition includes 125 new terms and more than 730 entries are illustrated with detailed line drawings"--P. [4] of cover.

Kew - Plant Words

Author: Emma Wayland
Publisher: Welbeck
ISBN: 1802794735
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
What is a perennial plant? What grows in herbaceous borders? Why are fungi not plants? And what would you find growing in a Wardian case? Plant Words is an eclectic collection of 250 botanical terms curated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This treasury of horticultural terminology will introduce you to terraria, tulip mania and taxonomy, making you an expert in everything from arboreta to the wood-wide web. Describing the meaning, relevance, fascinating background and usage of each term, Plant Words will give you the vocabulary to understand and talk about plants, while sharing fascinating botanical facts and stories and broadening your horticultural knowledge. The perfect gift for connoisseur and beginner botanists alike, Plant Words is beautifully illustrated with over 80 images from Kew's collection.

Illustrated Plant Glossary

Author: Enid Mayfield
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486303544
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
The Illustrated Plant Glossary is a comprehensive glossary of over 4000 terms related to plant sciences, featuring many superb colour illustrations to aid understanding. The topics covered in this glossary include anatomy, angiosperms, bryophytes, chemistry, cytology, family specific terms, ferns and fern allies, flowers, fruit, genetics, gymnosperms, habit and growth, habitat and ecology, indumentum, inflorescence, leaves, reproduction, roots, seeds, systematics and more. The Illustrated Plant Glossary is a must-have reference for plant scientists, plant science teachers and students, libraries, horticulturalists, ecologists, gardeners and naturalists.

The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms

Author: Michael Hickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521794015
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A particularly versatile reference work for all those needing a guide to botanical terminology and plant structure.

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

Author: Timothy M. A. Utteridge
Publisher: La Mona Bismarck Foundation
ISBN: 9781842466025
Category : Tropical plants
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The tropics with their lush rainforests are extremely rich in plant life but are still comparatively unknown. Botanists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew have a long tradition of exploring and plant collecting in the tropics, accumulating an unsurpassed practical knowledge of the tropical plants they encounter.This second edition of The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook brings together this knowledge in a guide to the commonly encountered and ecologically important plants of the tropics. Written by Kew's experts, this handbook is based on Kew's Tropical Plant Identification course, which uses classical morphology, as well as more simple 'spot' characters, to teach plant identification.

Plant Identification Terminology

Author: James G. Harris
Publisher: Spring Lake Publishing
ISBN: 9780964022171
Category : Botanique - Dictionnaires anglais
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Plants of the World

Author: Maarten J. M. Christenhusz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652292X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 801

Book Description
Evolution of land plant -- Plants and human culture -- Naming plants -- Classification and the angiosperm phylogeny group

A Botanist's Vocabulary

Author: Susan K. Pell
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604695633
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
For anyone looking for a deeper appreciation of the wonderful world of plants! Gardeners are inherently curious. They make note of a plant label in a botanical garden and then go home to learn more. They pick up fallen blossoms to examine them closer. They spend hours reading plant catalogs. But they are often unable to accurately name or describe their discoveries. A Botanist’s Vocabulary gives gardeners and naturalists a better understanding of what they see and a way to categorize and organize the natural world in which they are so intimately involved. Through concise definitions and detailed black and white illustrations, it defines 1300 words commonly used by botanists, naturalists, and gardeners to describe plants.

Kew's Teas, Tonics and Tipples

Author: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN: 9781842465882
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Kew's Teas, Tonics and Tipples is a celebration of the huge diversity of flavour, colour and fragrance plants bring to the drinks we consume. Throughout the book are recipes from Kew staff, from curators, to gardeners and botanists, as well as drinks inspired by the great plant hunters and their exotic adventures. With over 60 recipes accompanied with beatiful botanic art from Kew's archives.

The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants

Author: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711238107
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Gardener's Companion to Medicinal Plants is a beautifully illustrated giftable gardening reference book, which combines exquisite botanical illustrations with practical self-help projects. Every day sees a discovery in the press about the new uses of plants, and it's certain that most of our most important drugs are derived from plants. From willow (used to procure aspirin) to periwinkle (used in chemotherapy to treat lymphoma) many common garden plants have provided cures in modern medicine. In this book readers can discover more than 200 life-saving plants and 25 home-grown remedies to make themselves. Each home cure is described and illustrated with step-by-step photographs to show how you can be a gardener and heal yourself.