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Author Knapp, Sandra.

Title Plant discoveries : a botanist's voyage through plant exploration / Sandra Knapp.

Imprint Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, 2003.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  580 K727p 2003    ---  Available
Edition 1st American ed.
Description 336 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Originally published as: Potted histories : an artistic voyage through plant exploration. London : Scriptum Editions, 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-331) and index.
Contents Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Arums -- Sugar bushes & banksias -- Peonies -- Water lilies -- Grasses & sedges -- Daffodils -- Cacti & succulents -- Magnolias -- Hibiscus -- Roses -- Palms -- Daisies & sunflowers -- Passionflowers -- Conifers -- Poppies -- Heathers -- Irises -- Gentians -- Tulips -- Morning-glories -- About scientific names -- Biographies -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements.
Summary Plant anatomy, botany, and their history and discovery.
Subject Plants.
Botany.
Plants -- Pictorial works.
Flowers -- Pictorial works.
Botany. (OCoLC)fst00836869
Flowers. (OCoLC)fst00927866
Plants. (OCoLC)fst01065823
Genre/Form Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Illustrated works.
Added Author Knapp, Sandra. Potted histories.
ISBN 1552978109
9781552978108

 
    
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