Name that Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants: 3rd Edition

Name: Name that Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants: 3rd Edition
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780522876048
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By Helen Lee and Ian Clarke

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Name that Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants: 3rd Edition by Helen Lee and Ian Clarke serves as a comprehensive guide for identifying various flowering plants. It combines detailed descriptions, clear illustrations, and practical tips to assist both beginners and experienced botanists in recognising plant species. The book also delves into the botanical terminology and distinct features needed for accurate plant identification.
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This book may appeal to you if you have a passion for botany and want to enhance your skills in identifying flowering plants. It's an invaluable resource for both amateur and professional botanists, offering detailed descriptions and insights into plant identification techniques. Perfect for nature lovers who enjoy exploring and understanding the natural world.

The definitive guide to identifying flowering plants cultivated and in the wild, Australian and worldwide. This comprehensively updated third edition includes changes to the plant classification system due to advances in molecular DNA analysis, and the impact of online tools for plant identification.

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Name That Flower is a valued source of clear and concise information on identifying flowering plants from around the world, both cultivated and in the wild.

This edition is updated to align with current systems of plant classification that incorporate advances in molecular DNA analysis. It includes more than 130 detailed line drawings, 64 colour pages and information on 46 plant families. The illustrations depict a selection of widely distributed garden plants and weeds, and species native in eastern and southeastern Australia. Easily navigated, the book facilitates the successful use of standard identification manuals and online resources available in most parts of the world and introduces the reader to the arrangement of flowers on plants, reproduction, plant structure and function, and the way species are grouped and named. Methods for dissecting flowers and observing their structure for identification purposes are clearly described.

This bestseller is used extensively as a teaching text in numerous courses concerned with the natural world, such as agriculture, horticulture, botany, environmental management and landscape design, as well as botanical art. It is an essential reference for serious gardeners and keen botanists, professional and amateur.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780522876048

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 November 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: Melbourne University Press

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 622g

Pages: 374

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Education & Reference Helen Lee Ian Clarke Non-Fiction Penguin Books Science & Nature

About the Author

After working in a variety of technical jobs, including with the Forests Commission of Victoria and the Botany Department of The University of Melbourne, Ian Clarke was for many years employed in the plant identification service of the National Herbarium of Victoria. He transferred to a position as honorary associate there in 2003. He is the author and illustrator of a companion text, Name those Grasses- Identifying Grasses, Sedges and Rushes, published by the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in 2015. Between 1975 and 1990 he was associated with the Council of Adult Education in Melbourne as a tutor in flowering plant identification. Helen Lee holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Melbourne. After lecturing in botany for two years at Queen's University, Belfast, she was for many years a part-time tutor in the botany departments of Melbourne and LaTrobe Universities, and a tutor with the Melbourne Council of Adult Education. Upon retirement, she took up a position as Honorary Research Fellow in the Botany Department, LaTrobe University. Her research interests included the morphological characteristics of plants that resprout after fire, and arid zone ecology. She has been a member of the Royal Society of Victoria and the Australian Systematic Botany Society. Their collaboration on this book brings together over thirty years of involvement in tertiary and adult education.