Tropical Plants of Costa Rica
A Guide to Native and Exotic Flora
This second edition adds more than 100 species along with a new section focusing on the Osa Peninsula, many new photographs, and updates on scientific names.
2. erweiterte Auflage Ithaca 2022, kt., 543 Seiten, 820 Farbfotos, 124 sw.- Abb. This is the essential guide to Costa Rica's native and exotic plant species. In this comprehensive volume, Willow Zuchowski introduces readers to an array of the country's dazzling and diverse flora—from rainforest giants over sixty meters in height to miniature orchids with petals that measure less than one millimeter in length, covering almost 600 species from all of Costa Rica's regions. Detailed species accounts offer descriptions of the plants as well as a rich trove of information about their natural history, distribution, conservation status, potential medicinal uses, and role in human societies. This second edition—in a more compact size for easier use in the field—adds more than 100 species along with a new section focusing on the Osa Peninsula, many new photographs, and updates on scientific names.
Autor | ZUCHOWSKI, W.: |
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Sprache | Englisch |