A fundamental guide to understanding plant structure, with a particular emphasis on flowering plants, offering a combination of concise scientific text and excellent colour photographs and line drawings. This totally revised edition has been expanded 30% with > 190 new photos and diagrams and new sections on plant classification, plant walls, specialised leaves and plants adapted to specific ecosystems e.g deserts and saltmarsh. Laid out to be of use to both the student and professional as well as the interested layman.
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Plant Structure is a stunning collection of anatomical images at the light-microscope level with informative accompanying text... It represents excellent value —Annals of Biology, March 2010 Praise for the Previous Edition:The concept is remarkable...written to inform with maximum clarity and brevity. —The Horticulturist From the Previous Edition: The author has succeeded in preparing material not only for students and professional biologists, but also for artists and interested lay people...Students will find the hundreds of full colour illustrations a welcome study resource...visually delightful. —Trends in Plant Science Plant Structure is a stunning collection of anatomical images at the light-microscope level with informative accompanying text... It represents excellent value —Annals of Biology, March 2010 Praise for the Previous Edition:The concept is remarkable...written to inform with maximum clarity and brevity. —The Horticulturist From the Previous Edition: The author has succeeded in preparing material not only for students and professional biologists, but also for artists and interested lay people...Students will find the hundreds of full colour illustrations a welcome study resource...visually delightful. —Trends in Plant Science