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Orchids of Asia

Teoh Eng Soon

The definitive book for tropical orchid lovers. A large and lavish award-winning book filled with notes on the various species f Asian orchids, plus an interesting chapter on myths and aphrodisiacs

  • Full Colour Photographs
  • 304 pages
  • 280 x 200
  • Hard Cover
  • 9812046054
  • £29.99
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Orchid Growing in the Tropics

by the Orchid Society of Southeast Asia

Part 1 explains identification and growing of individual species. Part 2 discusses the different orchid families grown under special conditions. Part 3 deals with hybridization and breeding of thse beautiful plants.

  • Full colour throughout
  • 208 pages
  • 227 x 152
  • Hard Cover
  • 9812041087
  • £16.99
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Native Orchids of Peninsular Malaysia

Chris K.H. Teo

A worthwhile acquisition for all orchid lovers, this book catalogues more than 66 species in 32 genera of native orchids of Peninsular Malaysia

  • 85 Full colour photographs
  • 128 pages
  • 280 x 200
  • Soft Cover
  • 9812045686
  • £10.99
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Plants and Flowers of Malaysia

Dr. Ivan Polunin

Over 10,000 species of flowering plant are to be found in the states of the Malay Peninsular and the N.W. side of the island of Borneo. Here 170 species are studied in detail with full colour photoraphs and extended captions.

  • 200 colour photographs
  • 160 paespages
  • 235 x 154
  • Hard Cover
  • 9812040218
  • £14.99
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Plants and Flowers of Singapore

Dr. Ivan Polunin

From over 2500 species of flowering plant in Singapore, 160 have been chosen for their unusual beauty, historic, economic or social value. Each has a colour photographs and detailed information

  • 200 colour photographs
  • 160 pages
  • 235 x 154
  • Hard Cover
  • 9971401142
  • £14.99
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Gardening in the Tropics

R. E. Holttum and Ivan Enoch

This books lists more than 500 species of plants, flowers and shrubs from the Tropics and includes up-to-date information on pests, garden layut, special techniques for soil maintenance and much much more.

  • Over 400 full colour photographs and drawings
  • 384 pages
  • 280 x 200
  • Hard Cover
  • 9812041990
  • £39.95
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Ferns of the Tropics

Wee Yeow Chin

A comprehensive and delightfully illustrated guide to 80 different species of Ferns of the Tropics. Contains clear photographs and detailed explanations of different species, their natural and artificial habitats.

  • Over 250 full colour photos/line drawings
  • 160 pages
  • 227 x 152
  • Hard Cover
  • 981204793X
  • £14.99
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Wild Flowers of Northern South Africa

Gerrit Germishuizen

The exquisite watercolours of Anita Fabian capture the beauty of 1300 plants found in the northern provinces of South Africa. Each illustration is accompanied by expert and informative text including a species description, distribution, habitat and flowering times.

  • 220 full colour plates
  • 472 pages
  • 246 x 176
  • Soft Cover
  • 1874950296
  • £22.50
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Proteas

Tony Rebelo

Some 370 species of Protea are found within South Africa, of which more than 330 are confined to the Cape Floral Kingdom. This book is the first comprehensive full-colour identification guide to this plant family. Each member of the 14 southern African genera is illustrated with a photograph and supported by a distribution map and proves to be an invaluable reference for all nature-lovers and visitors to this region

  • 470 Photographs plus line drawings and maps
  • 336 pages
  • 210 x 150
  • Hard Cover
  • 1874950180
  • £24.00
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Ericas of South Africa

Dolf Schumann and Gerhard Kirsten

The most comprehensive work ever published on the Ericas genus, one of the most complex and beautiful components of the South African fynbos. 450 species are described each accompanied with one or more magnificent colour photographs that demonstrate the specie's botanical intricacy or show it in its habitat. Many Ericas are illustrated for the first time.

  • 850 colour photographs
  • 272 pages
  • 300 x 230
  • Hard Cover
  • 0958315434
  • £39.00
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Bushveldt Trees

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Sensitive photography reveals the beauty and infinite variety of the bushveld trees, showing the changing hues of the foliage, the deatail of the leaves, flowers, fruit bark and the animals, insects and birds that live in close association with them. This book covers the areas that commonly host specific trees - the dry north where mopane trees stretch as far as the eye can see, acacia country with its dense thickets of spiny shrubs, impressive umbrellas thorn sentinels and leadwood skeletons,and mixed woodlands with their densely clad cluster leaves and bushwillows.

  • 192 colour photographs
  • 120 pages
  • 300x 270
  • Hard Cover
  • 0958315493
  • £33.00
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