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| 1. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: A Souvenir Guide
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| Books about Kew
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A brand new, and most attractively illustrated, edition of this fascinating guide, designed to help you discover Kew Gardens as the visitor finds it today. Special seasonal walks are fully illustrated with maps, and the guide provides fasci......
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£4.95 | $9.15
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| 2. Britain's Wild Harvest
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| Economic Botany
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At the start of the 21st century Britain's wild plants and fungi still play a role in our economy. This book, the first of its kind, explains which species are used, where they are gathered, and how they are processed for the marketplace. F......
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£9.95 | $18.40
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| 3. Poisonous Plants and Fungi in Britain & Ireland
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SPECIAL OFFER...PRICE REDUCED TO £15.99 2nd Edition CD-ROM Totally revised editon of Poisonous Plants in Britain and Ireland CD-ROM, which now includes fungi, written and compiled by the Medical Toxicology Unit of Guy’s & St Thomas’......
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£15.99 | $29.60
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| 4. World Checklist of Palms
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| World Checklists
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The palm family, considered to be second only to the grasses among monocotyledonous plants of economic importance, is of immense significance to man, especially among rural communities in the tropics, where wild palms are intensively utilis......
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£17.00 | $31.45
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| 5. The Story of the Apple
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| Economic Botany
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A fascinating investigation into the history and origins of the domestic, or cultivated apple, which takes the reader from central Asia and the Silk Roads to the cider presses of Herefordshire. Attractively illustrated with colour photograp......
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£20.00 | $37.00
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| 6. Kew Magazine: SUBSCRIBE ONLINE - UK & EUROPE
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| KEW MAGAZINE
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Plants are not only beautiful and intriguing, they are the basis of all life on Earth. At Kew we work to increase understanding of the plant kingdom and so promote more sustainable management of the Earth's environment. Kew, the quarterl......
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£20.00 | $37.00
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| 7. World Checklist of Dioscoreales: Yams and their Allies
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| World Checklists
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Dioscoreales are a small but systematically and economically significant order of monocotyledons. The most diverse and important member is the yam genus, Dioscorea L., a source of dietary starch at macroeconomic to rural community levels. O......
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£25.00 | $46.25
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| 8. Ophrys: The Bee Orchids of Europe
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| Orchids
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The genus Ophrys constitutes one of the most diverse and biologically fascinating groups of plants to be encountered in Europe, particularly the Mediterranean. This book offers an easy to use, comprehensive, introduction to the genus, thro......
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£33.00 | $61.05
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| 9. Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible
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| Pollen and Seeds
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NB. This book is NOT published by Kew Publishing Fruit. The word conjures up mouthwatering memories of crunchy apples, luscious strawberries, sweet bananas, succulent melons and juicy pineapples. The well-travelled will also recall the......
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£35.00 | $64.75
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| 10. Genera Graminum: Grasses of the World
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| Grasses, Sedges and Palms
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A standard reference providing a comprehensive overview of the grass family to generic level. Illustrated with 24 line drawings. 389pp. 245 x 155mm. Paperback. ISBN 0 900347 75 X......
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£42.00 | $77.70
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