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Tasmanian Plant Names Unravelled

Tasmanian Plant Names Unravelled was the first comprehensive species-by-species guide to the origin and meaning of the scientific and common names of the 2,700 vascular plants native and naturalised in Tasmania. And it is now fully revised!

The name of every one of our plants tells a story: where it occurs, its habitat, what it looks like, who discovered it, what it can be used for, whether it is edible or poisonous, and many other things.

Lavishly illustrated, this book will appeal to Tasmanian botanists, naturalists and gardeners. It will also be useful in southeastern mainland States, which share much of the Tasmanian flora.

This book is an easy-to-read reference that explains the mysteries of botanical language in a non-technical way.

This edition is more than just a simple reprint – it includes fully revised text (same general format and content), several hundred new species, new high resolution digital images, more biographies and information boxes, and fully updated taxonomy.

More exciting than any of that is that it now illustrates over 1,630 different plant species (up from around the
930 images in the first edition).

• Authors: Mark, James, Annie, and Hans Wapstra
• ISBN: 9781764227001