Plant Form: An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Plant Morphology - Hardcover

Bell, Adrian D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198542798 ISBN 13: 9780198542797

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Flowering plants are immensely varied. Their leaves, flowers, roots and seeds can exhibit so great a range of form as to make identification very difficult. Describing them accurately presents ever greater difficulties. Yet this very variation can be a source of endless fascination for the plant lover and the student of botany alike. This book presents the innumerable curiosities of the growing and mature and flowering plant, examining the details of plant form and how they can be modified. It presents and explains much of the terminology that is used in more advanced botanical texts or in reference books, but is rarely explained for the novice.

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Review:

This book makes this complex subject accessible and manageable. . . . Functions as an illustrated dictionary, a basic course in plant morphology, and an intriguing and enlightening book into which to dip. Hobby Greenhouse

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"This book makes this complex subject accessible and manageable. . . . Functions as an illustrated dictionary, a basic course in plant morphology, and an intriguing and enlightening book into which to dip." --Hobby Greenhouse

About the Author:

Adrian D. Bell, Ph.D, is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He has devoted his career to studying, teaching, and writing about plant morphology, serving as Senior Lecturer in the Schools of Plant Biology and Biological Sciences at the University of Wales and as Cabot Fellow at Harvard University. He has published scientific papers in four areas of botanical research: three-dimensional vascular anatomy of monocotyledonous plants, branching patterns of rhizomatous plants, computer graphic simulation of branching patterns in plants, and branching and bud structure at the canopy surface of tropical rainforest trees. His other interests include gardening with tropical plants in a temperate climate and managing a wildlife environment of pond, copse and wildflower meadow, close-up photography, wood carving, driving and maintaining a vintage 1926 automobile, and travel to warm destinations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0198542798
• ISBN 13: 9780198542797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 341