Ivan Holliday (1926–2010)
Auteur de A field guide to Australian trees
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Ivan Grenfell Holliday
Œuvres de Ivan Holliday
Landscape Guide for the Mount Lofty Ranges 1 exemplaire
Australian Plants for Adelaide Gardens 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1926
- Date de décès
- 2010
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- South Australia
- Professions
- photographer
plant grower
author
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 17
- Membres
- 200
- Popularité
- #110,008
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 32
Each species is treated to a two page spread with great photographs of the flowering plant and an insert showing the mature cone with a sample leaf. some details about requirements for cultivation are included but I think if one was seriously interested in growing them then you would need more than this book. They have included a good glossary in the back which has some details about leaf and inflorescent shapes but a true botanical key is absent. Maybe, with only 62 species one does not need it and it is relatively easy to, at least, identify a specimen as a banksia even if the exact species is unknown. And that's where this book comes in and should be of great assistance in identifying the species. It's small enough to carry in a backpack and the pictures would help narrow the choice.
There is a short paragraph on each species indicating requirements for growing (most seem to prefer slightly acid, well drained soils) but hardly enough to set up in business growing them. Bottom line, I enjoyed reading it and give it four stars.… (plus d'informations)