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This book written by interantional experts aims to develop standards of curation across all biocultual collections. and help institutions to properly care for their collections.

James Sowerby (1757-1822) was an outstanding artist and natural historian, renowned for his discoveries and prodigious output of beautiful, scientific books of plants, fungi, animals, fossils and minerals, all during the age of Enlightenment in Great Britain.

David Nash ? A Natural Gallery celebrates the year-long exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, with stunning colour photography documenting the exhibition in its entirety.

This monograph is the definitive guide to cyclamen, with every aspect of the genus revealed, written in an informative but accessible way, and will appeal to a wide audience, namely gardeners, growers, botanists, botanical art enthusiasts, and cyclamen enthusiasts.

Fagales contains full checklists of important, mainly temperate genera, describing 531 species, their growth patterns, distribution and conservation status.

A full account of the higher plants of northern Yemen.

A practical pocket field guide to all the species of rattans (climbing palms) in Lao PDR and neighbouring parts of Indochina.

The monocotyledon volume. A number of species additional to Volume 1 are included in an appendix. With 4 colour plates and 171 line drawings.

Kew's Millennium Seed Bank is a unique, global asset. The largest seed bank of its kind in the world dedicated to wild plant species, it contains theworld's most diverse seed collections. The Last Great Plant Hunt describes the importance of seed collecting and the work of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank.

The three islands comprising the Cayman Islands (Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac) support 415 native taxa in a land area little over 260 square kilometers, 29 of which are uniquely Caymanian. 250 line illustrations and over 400 colour photographs illustrate the majority of species most likely to be encountered.

The first Red List assessment of the entire Cayman Islands flora, covering all 415 species and varieties considered truly native to the Cayman Islands.

The Wild Flora of Kew Gardens: A cumulative checklist from 1759 details all plants that have ever been recorded growing in a wild state within the Gardens or its periphery and all natives cultivated in formal beds, dating back to the first record of 1759.

Ernest Wilson was the foremost plant collector of his generation, responsible for introducing over 1,000 species to our gardens in the West. The authors ofthis book reveal Wilson's adventures through excerpts from his own writing as well as describing their own experiences tracing his journeys in the wilds ofChina today.

This is an essential guide for all those wanting to study and enjoy the flora of the area, and an invaluable tool for researchers, wildlife managers, amateur botanists, students, rangers, guides and tourists alike.

This new edition of a now classic work provides an up to date checklist of one of the richest orchid floras, with descriptive and diagnostic notes on each species compiled and written by a team of leading international experts.

Madagascar is a world hot-spot for orchids. This field guide, the first of its kind for Madagascan orchids, will enable you to identify these showy, and often spectacular plants.

Eighty-eight lavishly illustrated pages of step-by-step coloured drawings and photographs teaches you how to grow orchids confidently, successfully and professionally.