Guide to Succulents of Southern Africa

by Gideon Smith

Overview

Featuring 250 of the region’s most common and interesting succulents, this is an accessible, user-friendly guide to identifying these increasingly popular plants. Colour photographs vividly portray all the species covered. Authoritative text describes key identification features, and distribution maps show the occurrence of each species in southern Africa. This guide will have wide appeal both to naturalists and to the gardening public who, increasingly, are on the lookout for indigenous, low-maintenance and waterwise plants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781920544188
Publisher:	Penguin Random House South Africa
Publication date:	11/05/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

With over 40 books and hundreds of papers to his name, Gideon F Smith is South Africa’s most prolific author on aloes and other succulent plants. He is Chief Director for Biosystematics and Collections at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, professor of plant science at the University of Pretoria, and a research associate at the University of Coimbra, Portugal and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Through his interests in the biology and classification of succulent plants, as well as landscaping and horticulture, he is involved in various national and international environmental research associations.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Distribution of succulents in Southern Africa 6

Gardening with succulents 10

Species accounts 12

Glossary 134

Index 134