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Book Description:
Few other plants, with the possible exception of palms, can rival cycads for variety of foliage, size, and form. In spite of such diversity, however, cycads represent an ancient lineage whose fossil history extends over 200 million years. Cycads are tough and durable, not only as survivors but also as ornamental plants of great intrinsic interest.
Well worth the price.:
This book on cycads is very informative without being to technical. It is an outstanding source of information for all who have an interest in cycads. I feel I received value that exceeded the price paid.
Invaluable Cycad Reference:
Loran Whitelock has put a lifetime of cycad knowledge and experience in this book. Its excellent photographs give both views of mature plants and close ups of leaf detail that help readers distinguish among similar species. In addition to detailed physical descriptions of all of the recognized cycads and subspecies, Whitelock gives invaluable information on habitat, geographical distribution, conservation status and horticultural characteristics. This book will be the standard reference for cycad gardeners and admirers for many years.
THE CYCADS:
What can one say, simply the best book available on these fascinating ancient plants.Highly recommended.
Excellent introductory reference:
For any novice collector, this book offers a wonderful general knowledgebase of the Cycad family. Whilst not filled with botanical overload as some more in-depth books, it will assist you to identify differences between key plants within a genus. No reference collection is complete without it.
A big one for Cycad lovers:
I 'm a frenzy Cycad lover. For this reason, I would like to collect everything related Cycad, including plants of different species, books, stamps, photos.This is second important book on Cycad(the first one is CYCADS WORLD ED 2E).I consider the author spend much efforts and time on finishing this book, he had travel (I guess) all round the wolrd to collect the imformation on Cycad. He had a lot of experience. In this book, he shared his experiences with the readers. In this regard, I would like have this book, since you will know all the author had experienced. it 's a treseaue, a fantasitic book.
| Author: | Loran M. Whitelock | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 635.9359 | | EAN: | 9780881925227 | | Format: | Illustrated | | ISBN: | 0881925225 | | Number Of Pages: | 532 | | Publication Date: | 2002-05-01 |
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