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Title: Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family
ISBN: 0881924857
Author:
Deni Bown
Publicate Date: 2000-09-01
Publish: 2000-09-01
List Price: $17.48
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Beautiful bood, but
This is a wonderful book if you want to read about Aroids, and explore this fascinating group of plants. However there are minimal illustrations or pictures, and I often found myself longing for more of the many pictures that Deni Bown must have taken, in her travels. I am unlikely to see many or most of the plants she talks about in my lifetime, unless I plan some jungle exploration holidays, and would have loved to have more pictures to help me imagine what they looked like. Hopefully she will put out a more illustrated version one day!
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2: Very good book about Aroids
I think it is the best book about aroids with very good photos and descriptions.
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3: Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family
This is the best botanical book I have bought in years. easy to read, witty and packed with information.
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4: A plant family that may be more ingenious than the orchids
I've long been a fan of the Orchidaceae, but I didn't know that the Aroids are possibly an even more advanced branch of the Monocotlydons. This book exposes some shocking facts. Some species routinely metabolize lipids to generate temperatures over 100 F around their inflorescence while surrounding temps are near freezing. Other species manufacture aromatic compounds rarely encountered outside of the ANIMAL kingdom. There are aroids we can eat, and others that smell so horrible they inspire nightmares. Some species' reproductive contrivances are almost too imaginative for the plant kingdom.
Deni Bown has provided an invaluable service: she's compiled nearly everything Aroid known to science into one, comprehensive yet accessible book.
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5: A cool corner of the plant kingdom
If your tastes are a little nonstandard, you will enjoy growing the plants described in this book. I am lucky enough to live in Chapel Hill, NC. Its benign climate is ideal for growing hordes of very cool, very weird plants. Great effort!
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