Tropical Plants of Costa Rica: A Guide to Native and Exotic Flora (Zona Tropical Publications)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801473748 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 532 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sidebar features throughout the book highlight conservation, ethnobotany, and ecology; their topics include unusual applications for plants, distinct attributes of certain plant families, and plants of particular microhabitats. The text clearly explains each plant's identifying characteristics and reveals fascinating facts about its natural history, chemical properties, economic importance, and medicinal and other uses. Tropical Plants of Costa Rica is a wonderful resource for naturalists, students, and researchers, as well as both experienced and first-time visitors to Costa Rica and the American tropics.. Instructive pen-and-ink drawings of botanical details also accompany many of the accounts. Ranging from miniature epiphytic orchids to towering trees, and from mangrove forests lining coastal waterways to high-elevation cloud forests, Costa Rica's rich and varied flora dazzles visitors and botanists alik
Five Stars joanne The book was very informative and useful to prepare me for a trip to Central America.. Five Stars Carolyn Nice quality book.. Tropical Plants of Costa Rica: A Guide to Native and Exotic Flora by Zuchowski Robert B. Gillies I live in Chiriqui, Panama which is very close to the border with Costa Rica. Considering the scarcity of information about this subject, the book is worth having along with The Field Guide to the Plants of Costa Rica by Gargiullo, Magnuson and Kimball. Both books lack keys and neither have the plants arranged in taxon
Photographs by Turid Forsyth
Stevens, Choice, October 2007"This attractive book provides a means for visitors to Costa Rica to learn about and recognize 430 of the more prominent plants of the country and to learn about them in a wonderfully exciting way. Tropical Plants of Costa Rica is a real gem. Louis . "One is hard-pressed to come up with a list of plants that should have been included but are missing from this fabulous survey of tropical beauty. A 'must' for any ecotourist, and a refresher course about the biology of tropical plants for anyone. I wish such a book had existed when I first visited Costa Rica forty years ago!"Peter H. Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. C. Essential. All levels."G. This is a well-constructed, nicely formatted, high-quality book