The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the Flora covers plants cultivated in most areas of the United States and Canada as well as in non-tropical parts of Asia and Australasia. Volume 3 contains accounts of 47 families, including those formerly included in the Leguminosae (Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Fabaceae) as well as the large and important Rosaceae. Also included are those families formerly covered by the name Saxifragaceae (Saxifragaceae in the strict sense, Penthoraceae, Grossulariaceae, Parnassiaceae, Hydrangeaceae and Escalloniaceae).
- Enables the reader to accurately identify over 16,000 species of flowering plants spread across more than 200 families
- Practical and tested identification keys provide a simple and effective way to negotiate to the plant name required
- More than 200 line drawings and an extensive glossary help the reader to interpret the text
- Fully accessible to the informed gardener, with technical vocabulary kept to a minimum
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Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: August 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521761550
- length: 640 pages
- dimensions: 284 x 225 x 30 mm
- weight: 1.75kg
- contains: 53 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of maps and figures
List of contributors to the 1st edition
Preface to the 2nd edition
Preface to the 1st edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Key to families
132. Resedaceae
133. Moringaceae
134. Platanaceae
135. Hamamelidaceae
136. Crassulaceae
137. Cephalotaceae
138. Penthoraceae
139. Saxifragaceae
140. Grossulariaceae
141. Parnassiaceae
142. Hydrangeaceae
143. Escalloniaceae
144. Cunoniaceae
145. Davidsoniaceae
146. Pittosporaceae
147. Byblidaceae
148. Roridulaceae
149. Rosaceae
150. Chrysobalanaceae
151. Minosaceae
152. Caesalpiniaceae
153. Fabaceae
154. Limnanthaceae
155. Oxalidaceae
156. Geraniaceae
157. Tropaeolaceae
158. Zygophyllaceae
159. Linaceae
160. Euphorbiaceae
161. Daphniphyllaceae
162. Rutaceae
163. Cneoraceae
164. Simaroubaceae
165. Burseraceae
166. Meliaceae
167. Malpighiaceae
168. Polygalaceae
169. Coriariaceae
170. Anacardiaceae
171. Aceraceae
172. Sapindaceae
173. Hippocastanaceae
174. Meliosmaceae
175. Melianthaceae
176. Greyiaceae
177. Balsaminaceae
178. Cyrillaceae
Glossary
Index.
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Editors
James Cullen, Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, Cambridge
James Cullen has been a professional plant taxonomist for over 50 years, working particularly on the classification and identification of plants in cultivation (especially Rhododendron) at Liverpool and Edinburgh Universities, at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and in Cambridge. With the late Dr S. M. Walters, he was the initiator of the first edition of The European Garden Flora and is responsible for two spin-offs, The Orchid Book (1992) and Manual of North European Garden Plants (2001).
Sabina G. Knees, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Sabina Knees is a taxonomist at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and although now working on plants of the Middle East, particularly the flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra, she spent over 20 years working as a horticultural taxonomist for the Royal Horticultural Society and the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and is a founder member of the Horticultural Taxonomy Group (HORTAX). She was editor of The New Plantsman for seven years and worked initially as a research associate and then as a member of the editorial committee on the first edition of The European Garden Flora.
H. Suzanne Cubey, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Suzanne Cubey has worked at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (RBGE) since 1987, originally as a researcher, and then later becoming the Assistant Secretary on the Editorial Board for the first edition of The European Garden Flora. Since 2005 her main role has been as Assistant Herbarium Curator with particular responsibility for the cultivated plants, where she curates the cultivated specimens in the RBGE herbarium and manages the vouchering of research material from the living collections.