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A Field Guide, Third enlarged edition
This field guide of the wildflowers in the Azores islands provides short species portraits with full- colour photographs for 645 vascular plants growing wild in the archipelago and mentions key distinguishing characters for the remaining species. More than 1100 of the about 1200 species of the flora of the Azores are covered in this book, the most comprehensive treatment for these islands. Not only the most common species but also rare and unusual plants of thrilling beauty are illustrated and described, some of them for the first time.
Much emphasis is given to endemic species that can be found nowhere else in the world and invasive plant species that have been introduced to the Azores from all over the globe. They describe a serious threat to the native ecosystems in the archipelago. In addition to the scientific name, the Portuguese, English, German, and French names are given for each species. A glossary in English, Portuguese and German helps readers to better understand the scientific terminology.
An invaluable aid for all plant lovers in the Azores: students, teachers, farmers, rangers, scientists, tourists.
Die neue, große und umfassende Flora der Kanarischen Inseln
Im vorliegenden Werk werden auf 1.300 Seiten über 2.000 Farn- und Blütenpflanzen der Kanarischen Inseln in Wort und Bild dargestellt. Fast alle der etwa 650 endemischen Sippen werden mit einem oder mehreren Fotos abgebildet. Hinzu kommen zahlreiche, meist mediterrane, eingebürgerte und invasive Arten.
Über 2.400 Farbfotos, darunter zahlreiche Detailaufnahmen,
ermöglichen eine sichere Bestimmung der auf den Kanaren vorkommenden Arten. Im Text finden sich außerdem Angaben zu 200 weiteren Arten, wie man sie unterscheidet und auf welchen Inseln sie vorkommen.
Im einleitenden Teil werden die einzelnen Vegetationsstufen beschrieben, des Weiteren die Inseln und ihre Entstehung und die Entwicklung der Flora.
Dieses Buch ist eine unverzichtbare Ergänzung zu den bisher vorliegenden Bestimmungsbüchern. Unentbehrlich ist es für alle Pflanzenliebhaber der Kanaren: für Botaniker, Studenten, Lehrer als auch für Touristen.
Here you will find a free excerpt of the book!
Plant Guide Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands and home to Spain's highest peak, Pico del Teide, at 3,718 metres.
It offers a wide variety of habitats, from dry, hot succulent scrubland to evergreen laurel forests and mountain vegetation.
This 400-page plant guide presents 1,575 plant species and subspecies found on Tenerife, including endemic, naturalised and invasive species, as well as species that also occur in other regions of the Mediterranean.
The first comprehensive nature guide for Tenerife!
(The book is available in German only)
Symbol of the nineteenth-century botanist, now an obsolete relic
At the risk of outing myself as an ‘obsolete relic’, I have to come clean and recount my own introduction to the ‘vasculum or botanical collecting box’. In the 1960s my family lived in Leeds and on coming home for lunch from school one day with my brother and sister, we found an unexpected parcel addressed to us. I must have been seven or eight at the time. The packet came from the firm of Reynolds and Branson, suppliers of laboratory and photographic equipment, and had been sent at the request of our great aunt May Padman. Aunt May was a keen botanist and lived in the beautiful village of Boston Spa, on the spe- cies-rich Magnesian limestone rather than the species-poor, acidic Millstone grit around Leeds. On opening the package we found a strange, bright green, metal box, which our Mother told us was a ‘vasculum’. Though no longer able to undertake fieldwork herself, having been immobilised by a stroke, Aunt May wanted to encourage our early botanical pursuits, as she had done with her niece Ann Woolliscroft while collecting belladonna and foxglove for the war effort during World War II. Curiously, according to Mother, Aunt May never used a vasculum and for us children it came too late. Technology had moved on and this was now the era of collecting into polythene bags, but I still have the box as a memento of times past. On seeing the French version of this remarkable book in 2022 my immediate reaction was that it needed to be made available to a much wider audience, to readers of English, but also for its remarkable illustrations. These show not only the historical development of the vasculum itself, but a quite extraordinary range of images, from illustrations in catalogues of suppliers of scientific equipment, to vivid ‘chromos’ advertising some rather surprising products. Many of the latter are from the author’s own collection, assembled over a period of many years. The other major reason for wanting to make the book more widely available is that it hugely extends the pioneering, but largely Anglocentric, work on the subject by David Allen and members of the Botanical Society of the British Isles.