Please note: This EBook has been specifically designed as an EPublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ The Tillandsimainia Species A – E Ebook offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in growing Tillandsia species (air plants). It is part of a larger series of on airplants that offers detailed information on the plants. It presents richly detailed photographs for each plant entry including close-up microscope images. The more than 330 pages of the volume, contain 123 plant entries on specific hybrid plants and combined with the accompanying 959 photographs, each entry endeavours to offer information on the hybrid seed and pollen parents, the hybridizer, dates, plant form, leaves, flowers, and growing conditions. The Tillandsias in the volume are all from the author’s collection and his experience propagating Tillandsias where he lives near Melbourne, Australia. The EBook gives an insight into a range of plants he is experimenting with for his installation within the built environment.

When Rolf Dahlgren and I embarked on preparing this book series, Rolf took prime responsibility for monocotyledons, which had interested him for a long time. After finishing his comparative study and family classification of the monocots, he devoted much energy to the acquisition and editing of family treatments for the present series. After his untimely death, Peter Goldblatt, who had worked with him, continued to handle further incoming monocot manuscripts until, in the early 1990s, his other obligations no longer allowed him to continue. At that time, some 30 manuscripts in various states of perfection had accumulated, which seemed to form a solid basis for a speedy completion of the FGVP monocots; with the exception of the grasses and orchids which would appear in separate volumes. I felt a strong obligation to do everything to help in publishing the manuscripts that had been put into our hands. I finally decided to take charge of them personally, although during my life as a botainst I had never seriously been interested in monocots.

Big-Leaf Mahogany is the most important commercial timber species of the tropics. Current debate concerning whether to protect it as an endangered species has been hampered by the lack of complete, definitive scientific documentation. This book reports on vital research on the ecology of big-leaf mahogany, including genetic variations, regeneration, natural distribution patterns and the silvicutural and trade implications for the tree.