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/ If you are using a Mac you may need to download it as a PDF and view it in chrome The Tillandsimainia Species N – Z 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 445 pages of the volume, contains more than 140 plant entries on specific hybrid plants and combined with the accompanying 400 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.

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.

From the moment he saw his first Tillandsia in New Zealand, Sim Eng Hiang has worked tirelessly to cultivate, preserve, promote, and photograph these exotic treasures. Here, an esteemed member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain shares his lifes work as a naturalist and photographer for one of the plant kingdoms finest creations, the Tillandsia. His photographs were taken throughout the year with only the natural light of the morning. To showcase the dramatic colour changes the plants display as they prepare to bloom, he photographed them against a darkened background. He also presents more formal portraits of his subjects, carefully lit and artistically arranged for the camera. The plants are mounted on wooden blocks or hung from fishing line such that readers will experience the Tillandsia in all its glory. Devoted to one of natures finest gifts, Exotic Tillandsia is also a call to end the destruction humans unleash on natureand ultimately ourselves.

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 F – M 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 360 pages of the volume, contain 117 plant entries on specific hybrid plants and combined with the accompanying 1144 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.

From the moment he saw his first Tillandsia in New Zealand, Sim Eng Hiang has worked tirelessly to cultivate, preserve, promote, and photograph these exotic treasures. Here, an esteemed member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain shares his lifes work as a naturalist and photographer for one of the plant kingdoms finest creations, the Tillandsia. His photographs were taken throughout the year with only the natural light of the morning. To showcase the dramatic colour changes the plants display as they prepare to bloom, he photographed them against a darkened background. He also presents more formal portraits of his subjects, carefully lit and artistically arranged for the camera. The plants are mounted on wooden blocks or hung from fishing line such that readers will experience the Tillandsia in all its glory. Devoted to one of natures finest gifts, Exotic Tillandsia is also a call to end the destruction humans unleash on natureand ultimately ourselves.

Often growing far above the ground, "air plants" (or epiphytes) defy many of our common perceptions about plants. The majority use their roots only for attachment in the crowns of larger, usually woody plants—or to objects such as rocks and buildings—and derive moisture and nutrients from the atmosphere and by collecting falling debris. Only the mistletoes are true parasites. Epiphytes are not anomalies and there are approximately 28,000 species—about 10 percent of the higher or vascular plants—that grow this way. Many popular houseplants, including numerous aroids, bromeliads, ferns, and orchids, rank among the most familiar examples. In Air Plants, David H. Benzing takes a reader on a tour of the many taxonomic groups to which the epiphytes belong and explains in nontechnical language the anatomical and physiological adaptations that allow these plants to conserve water, thrive without the benefit of soil, and engage in unusual relationships with animals such as frogs and ants. Benzing’s comprehensive account covers topics including ecology, evolution, photosynthesis and water relations, mineral nutrition, reproduction, and the nature of the forest canopy as habitat for the free-living and parasitic epiphytes. It also pays special attention to important phenomena such as adaptive trade-offs and leaf economics. Drawing on the author’s deep experience with epiphytes and the latest scientific research, this book is accessible to readers unfamiliar with technical botany; it features a lavish illustration program, references, a glossary, and tables.