Rare plants : the story of 40 of the world's most unusual and endangered plants /

Rare Plants explores what makes the world's rarest plants so exceptional, and by what means they have become so scarce, telling the story of forty rare and endangered species through exquisite botanical artworks sourced from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accompanied by illumin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikin, Ed (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Welbeck, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Renala
  • Aloe vera
  • Monkey puzzle
  • Chatham Island Christmas tree
  • Angel's trumpets
  • Sea marigold
  • Lobster claw
  • Bush lily
  • Highland coffee
  • Dragon tree
  • Smooth purple cornflower
  • Enset
  • The genus Eucalyptus
  • Common ash
  • Snake's head fritillary
  • Snowdrop
  • Dyer's greenweed
  • Himalayan gentian
  • Mandrinette
  • The Tunbridge filmy fern
  • Sofar iris
  • Jacaranda
  • Chilean wine palm
  • Tangle weed kelp
  • Pico de el sauzal
  • Crested cow-wheat
  • Attenborough's pitcher plant
  • Least water lily
  • Thermal water lily
  • Prickly pear cactus
  • The egg-in-a-nest orchid
  • London plane
  • Pasque flower
  • Common oak
  • African violet
  • Suicide palm
  • Chilean blue crocus
  • St Helena ebony
  • Mistletoe
  • Mulanje cedar
  • Glossary.