Kew Plant Glossary Beentje Henk
Kew Plant Glossary Beentje Henk If asked to describe a plant, many of us would have to resort to basic descriptors such as vague shapes or simple colors. A pear's shape can be called pyriform, while…
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Kew Plant Glossary Beentje Henk
If asked to describe a plant, many of us would have to resort to basic descriptors such as vague shapes or simple colors. A pear's shape can be called pyriform, while lemon's form is prolate. But for those who work and write in the plant world, there are thousands of terms available for crafting the perfect characterization.
And the autumnal spread of fallen leaves is called, elegantly, leaf litter.The Kew Plant Glossary is a comprehensive guide to the myriad of terms used in the identification and conservation of plants. A petal might range from caesious (pale blue-grey or -green) to ceraceous (pale cream) to cinerous (ash grey). This new edition adds more than four hundred new entries, including a vegetation-type section, bringing the total to 4,905 botanical terms and seven hundred illustrations.
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