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Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants
A superb reference for anyone interested in the world's tropical flora.
Tropical Garden Style with Hardy Plants
This practical handbook shows how to turn a garden into a fantasy of exotic contrasts: thrusting spikes alongside feathery grasses and vibrant colours against a deep green backdrop. It has advice on growing exotic plants in non-tropical climates, showing that exotic specimens can be easy to manage.
The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook
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.
Tropical Plants and How to Love Them
Adventurous Gardener seeks relationship with Tropical Plant… *As featured in The New York Times* *Winner of the GardenComm 2022 Media Awards Gold Award of Achievement in the Book Writing General Readership Category* *Winner of the GardenComm 2022 Media Awards Silver Award of Achievement in the Publisher/Book General Readership Category* Tropical plants are energizing. They awaken a tired summer garden with lush, sensuous foliage and fascinating flowers and turn a suburban patio into a sophisticated, late-night paradise. But if you garden in a temperate climate and have been reluctant to commit to what you’re sure will be too much work, it’s time to let Tropical Plants and How to Love T...
Landscaping with Tropical Plants
Design ideas; creative garden plans; cold-climate solutions.
Handy Pocket Guide to Tropical Plants
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.
Tropical Flowering Plants
This book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research -- and magnificent photography -- that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to the botanist.
Tropical Fruits and Other Edible Plants of the World
Tropical fruits such as banana, mango, papaya, and pineapple are familiar and treasured staples of our diets, and consequently of great commercial importance, but there are many other interesting species that are little known to inhabitants of temperate regions. What delicacies are best known only by locals? The tropical regions are home to a vast variety of edible fruits, tubers, and spices. Of the more than two thousand species that are commonly used as food in the tropics, only about forty to fifty species are well known internationally. Illustrated with high-quality photographs taken on location in the plants' natural environment, this field guide describes more than three hundred specie...
Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere
Enjoy fresh java brewed from your own coffee beans or juice from the orange tree growing in a sunny corner of your living room. Laurelynn G. Martin and Byron E. Martin show you how to successfully plant, grow, and harvest 47 varieties of tropical fruiting plants — in any climate! This straightforward, easy-to-use guide brings papaya, passionfruit, pepper, pineapples, and more out of the tropics and into your home. With plenty of gorgeous foliage, entrancing fragrances, and luscious fruits, local food has never been more exotic.
Collins Guide to Tropical Plants
A description of ornamental and economic plants that are becoming more familiar to the current population
