Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Author
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Horticultural flora of south-eastern Australia Series
By Roger Spencer
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The five volume Horticultural flora of south-eastern Australia is the first publication of its kind in Australia. Until now the horticultural industry has had no inventory of the large number of plants (both native and exotic) which are cultivated in gardens, no easily accessible means of identifying them, and no reliable guide to their names. This series gives to gardeners, students, nursery staff and others in the horticultural industry the means to identify garden plants, and provides detailed information on their botany and cultivation. Its main features are:
- Enables the non-specialist to identify native and exotic (imported) garden plants
- Illustrations of important characteristics for distinguishing the different species
- Colour plates of important and representative types
- Easy-to-use identification keys, and an outline of classification
- Detailed descriptions of families, genera, species and cultivars, including notes on recognition, presented in a clear, consistent structure
- Limits to use of technical language, and explains it, with a glossary
- Represents a comprehensive inventory of the readily available garden plants
- Authoritative listing of botanical and horticultural names, including cultivars (cultivated varieties)
- Notes on propagation, uses, ecology, cultivation, origins, distribution, conservation
- Gives historical and background information
- Indicates where to see prominent specimens, with details of public gardens and collections
- Comprehensive bibliography
Covering South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and southern Queensland, the series is also a useful guide to temperate plants in other parts of Australia and New Zealand.
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Horticultural flora of south-eastern Australia Volume 1: ferns, conifers
ISBN 0868402060, published in 1995 by University of New South Wales Press, colour plates, hard cover, 358 pages
Price $A120.00 plus $A10 postage within Australia, overseas postage please request a quote
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Table of contents
- List of colour plates
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- How to use this book
- Illustrated glossary of plant shapes
- Keys to genera
- Main body of the book (pages 1-312)
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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Horticultural flora of south-eastern Australia Volume 2: flowering plants. Dicotyledons Part 1
ISBN 0868403032, published in 1998 by University of New South Wales Press, colour plates, hard cover, 606 pages
Price $A160.00 plus $A10 postage within Australia, overseas postage please request a quote
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Table of contents
- List of colour plates
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Symbols and abbreviations
- How to use this book
- Key to families of flowering plants
- Main body of the book (pages 1-536)
- Appendices
- Illustrated glossary
- Bibliography for Volume 2
- General references
- Index
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Horticultural flora of south-eastern Australia Volume 3: flowering plants. Dicotyledons Part 2
ISBN 0868406600, published in 2002 by University of New South Wales Press, colour plates, hard cover, 619 pages
Price $A160.00 plus $A10 postage within Australia, overseas postage please request a quote
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Table of contents
- List of colour plates
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Symbols and abbreviations
- How to use this book
- Main body of the book (pages 1-533)
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- General references
- Index
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Horticultural flora of south-eastern Australia Volume 4: flowering plants. Dicotyledons Part 3
ISBN 0868406848, published in 2002 by University of New South Wales Press, colour plates, hard cover, 534 pages
Price $A160.00 plus $A10 postage within Australia, overseas postage please request a quote
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Table of contents
- List of colour plates
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Symbols and abbreviations
- How to use this book
- Main body of the book (pages 1-449)
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- General references
- Index
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Horticultural flora of south-eastern Australia Volume 5: flowering plants. Monocotyledons
ISBN 0868408328, published in 2005 by University of New South Wales Press, colour plates, hard cover, 638 pages
Price $A160.00 plus $A10 postage within Australia, overseas postage please request a quote
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Table of contents
- List of colour plates
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Symbols and abbreviations
- How to use this book
- Guide to text elements
- Introductory note to volume 5
- The classification of monocotyledons
- Key to the families of flowering plants monocotyledons
- Main body of the book pages 1-588
- Bibliography
- General references
- Index
- Combined index to volumes 1-5
About the author
Dr. Roger Spencer is the Horticultural Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne where he has worked as a gardener, records officer, and on the technical staff before joining the scientific staff at the National Herbarium of Victoria. For over 15 years he has identified plants in public and private gardens, and has worked with the plant identification service of the Gardens for about ten years identifying cultivated plants. He has an honours degree in botany from the University of Wales (Aberystwyth) and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from The University of Melbourne. He has written for various gardening journals and The Age newspaper, and has also written or co-authored books on topics ranging from historic landscapes to plant names, elms, and silver and grey foliage plants. He has contributed to the native Floras of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria, and is on the committee of the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority and the scientific committee of the Ornamental Plant Collections Association of Australia. In recent times Roger has undertaken the management of the Greenlife Database, a list of botanically accurate names established for use by the nursery industry of Australia.