This edition had all images removed.
Title: The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 5
Original Publication: London: L. Reeve & Co, 1925.
Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_Plants_of_Africa
Credits: Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Summary: The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 5 by I. B. Pole Evans is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. It showcases hand-coloured plates with formal botanical descriptions of indigenous South African flora, emphasizing diagnostic features, distribution, and ecology. Aimed at botanists and horticulturists, it blends taxonomy with cultivation notes, local names, and occasional remarks on usefulness or toxicity. The opening of this volume begins with a dedication to the Cape mountain plant collector Thomas Pearson Stokoe and proceeds through a sequence of plates with notes on each species. The featured plants span many families and habitats, including succulents (Cotyledon, Crassula), multiple Aloes (from the economic A. ferox to the showy A. marlothii and A. rupestris), irids (Gladiolus, Lachenalia), orchids (Lissochilus/Eulophia), proteas (Leucadendron, Protea), and distinctive outliers like the parasitic Sarcophyte sanguinea and the epiphyte Dermatobotrys. Each entry pairs an illustration with concise history and identification, habitats and ranges, collector attributions, and practical or economic notes—such as aloes extraction, livestock poisoning, cultivation ease, and notable rediscoveries—giving a compact, plate-by-plate survey of South Africa’s flowering plants. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 68.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Author: Pole Evans, I. B. (Illtyd Buller), 1879-1968
EBook No.: 76601
Published: Jul 31, 2025
Downloads: 962
Language: English
Subject: Plants -- South Africa -- Periodicals
Subject: Plants -- South Africa -- Pictorial works -- Periodicals
LoCC: Science: Botany
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 5
Original Publication: London: L. Reeve & Co, 1925.
Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowering_Plants_of_Africa
Credits: Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Summary: The flowering plants of South Africa; vol. 5 by I. B. Pole Evans is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. It showcases hand-coloured plates with formal botanical descriptions of indigenous South African flora, emphasizing diagnostic features, distribution, and ecology. Aimed at botanists and horticulturists, it blends taxonomy with cultivation notes, local names, and occasional remarks on usefulness or toxicity. The opening of this volume begins with a dedication to the Cape mountain plant collector Thomas Pearson Stokoe and proceeds through a sequence of plates with notes on each species. The featured plants span many families and habitats, including succulents (Cotyledon, Crassula), multiple Aloes (from the economic A. ferox to the showy A. marlothii and A. rupestris), irids (Gladiolus, Lachenalia), orchids (Lissochilus/Eulophia), proteas (Leucadendron, Protea), and distinctive outliers like the parasitic Sarcophyte sanguinea and the epiphyte Dermatobotrys. Each entry pairs an illustration with concise history and identification, habitats and ranges, collector attributions, and practical or economic notes—such as aloes extraction, livestock poisoning, cultivation ease, and notable rediscoveries—giving a compact, plate-by-plate survey of South Africa’s flowering plants. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 68.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Author: Pole Evans, I. B. (Illtyd Buller), 1879-1968
EBook No.: 76601
Published: Jul 31, 2025
Downloads: 962
Language: English
Subject: Plants -- South Africa -- Periodicals
Subject: Plants -- South Africa -- Pictorial works -- Periodicals
LoCC: Science: Botany
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.