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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2024
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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An exploration of poisonous plants, showcased through paintings from Kew's archives


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By: Val Bourne

ISBN: 9781842466261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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The Living Jigsaw is a masterclass in natural gardening. By using tried-and-tested techniques you will be well on the way to developing a healthy garden ecology. This book not only champions natural gardening, but explains why it works and in doing so provides a compelling reason to make your garden chemical-free.


(Hardback)

By: Chris Thorogood

ISBN: 9781842467640
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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Chris Thorogood dreamed of becoming a botanist and would stop at nothing to feed his growing addiction to plants. In his wild adventures across the globe, he treads a death-defying path over cliffs, up erupting volcanoes, through typhoons, and into the very heart of the worlds vast, green wilderness.


(Hardback)

By: Kim Walker

ISBN: 9781842466896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2019
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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Just the Tonic is an accessible yet informative history of tonic water: its connections to the major disease malaria, the cure discovered in the bark of the cinchona tree and its constituent alkaloid quinine. It is a history deeply intertwined with botanical exploration and empire in the Victorian era, and the role of botanical gardens such as Kew.


(Hardback)

By: Royal Botanic Gardens

ISBN: 9781842467121
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2020
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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This stunning new series of pocketbooks from Kew offer a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Cacti lavishly showcases botanical art depicting choice examples from this popular plant group, all sourced from Kew's archvies.


(Hardback)

By: Chris Thorogood

ISBN: 9781842467367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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This stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Kew Pocketbooks: Carnivorous Plants lavishly showcases 40 botanical paintings of these deadly beauties.


(Hardback)

By: Royal Botanic Gardens

ISBN: 9781842467718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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A snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of orchids.


(Hardback)

By: Royal Botanic Gardens

ISBN: 9781842467114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2020
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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This stunning new series of pocketbooks from Kew offer a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Palms lavishly showcases botanical art depicting choice examples from this iconic plant group, all sourced from Kew's archvies.


(Hardback)

By: Ed Ikin

ISBN: 9781842467350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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This stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers lavishly showcases a meadows worth of familiar plants in 40 botanical paintings.


(Hardback)

By: Elizabeth Dauncey

ISBN: 9781842467008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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This fascinating and beautifully presented book explores medicinal plants and how they have transformed the lives of countless people.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Wilford

ISBN: 9781842467107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2020
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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The Agius Evolution Garden at Kew Gardens opened in the summer of 2019. Designed by Richard Wilford, with interpretation by Sharon Willoughby, the Evolution Garden is arranged according to the latest classification of plants, based on DNA analysis.


(Paperback)

By: Gemma Bramley

ISBN: 9781842467725
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2023
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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An identification guide to the commonly encountered plants of temperate regions.


(Paperback)

By: Janet. I. Sprent

ISBN: 9780947643775
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1994
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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Sixteen papers addressing the `nitrogen economy'of legumes, including nodulation.of legumes, including nodulation.


(Paperback)

By: M. D. Crisp

ISBN: 9780947643799
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1995
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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A collection of 17 papers discussing the phylogenyof various legume groups.of various legume groups.


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By: B. Pickersgill

ISBN: 9781900347082
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1996
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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Fifteen papers on cultivated legumes, their originsand relationships.and relationships.


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By: Olwen. M. Grace

ISBN: 9781842464199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2011
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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The aloe names book brings together, for the first time, information on the current taxonomy of each species, the plethora of common names by which aloes are known globally, derivative natural products, as well as hundreds of historical names and the richly descriptive meanings of Latin names used for aloes.


(Hardback)

By: Richard Wilford

ISBN: 9781842461723
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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A refreshing newperspective on these irresistible mountain dwellers, looking at their discovery and introduction into cultivation, the regions of the world they come from and how this should be taken into account when planting them in your garden.


(Paperback)

By: J. A. C. van Dam

ISBN: 9781842460450
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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A complete account of the56 species and 13 varietiesfound in Malaysia andThailand


(Hardback)

By: Rafael Govaerts

ISBN: 9781842461983
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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Supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund,this atlas, in English and French, gives a history ofvegetation mapping in Madagascar, the methodologyused in compiling this atlas and detailed descriptionsof each vegetation type


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: R. K. Brummitt

ISBN: 9781842460856
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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An index of authors of plant scientific names.


(Paperback)

By: Gerald. V. Pope

ISBN: 9780947643324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1991
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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A guide to general floristic works on the region, compiled to assist contributors to Flora Zambesiaca.


(Hardback)

By: Christina Harrison

ISBN: 9781842466148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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Take a journey through a forest of fascinating facts and explore the wonders of the plant kingdom from the tallest and smallest, to the smelliest and deadliest.


(Hardback)

By: Kenneth Ashburner

ISBN: 9781842461419
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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This is the first monograph published on the genus Betula, the species of which have been notoriously difficult to identify.


(Hardback)

By: Graham Duncan

ISBN: 9781842463826
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens
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This is the first complete and illustrated monograph of the genus Lachenalia, a horticulturally important and botanically diverse plant group.

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