Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Plants

by Elisabeth Chan, Luca Invernizzi Tettoni (Photographer)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462907298
Publisher:	Periplus Editions
Publication date:	10/14/2012
Series:	Handy Pocket Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	64
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Pauline Fiene-Severns , a biologist, lives in Maui with photographer Mike Severns