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Title: Succulents: The Illustrated Dictionary by Maurizio Sajeva, Mariangela Costanzo ISBN: 0-88192-398-2 Publisher: Timber Press (OR) Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent source
Comment: This book would be an excellent addition to any succulent lover's library. The photographs are outstanding, and do not focus so much on the flowers of a species as others in the genre do. It is so much easier to identify that unknown plant when you have a picture of the entire plant to go by. The only negative is that "common" names for plants were not given. I would've appreciated that. I also would've liked a "care & cultivation" (general) section for each type of succulent (or wish the authors would write such a book).
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent pictorial dictionary but some pictures so so
Comment: This is an excellent book for those who wish to identify their plants or find out what those plants in a catalogue look like. It is also useful for finding out which is the plant that interests you before you buy. An excellent book all round but some of the pictures, particularly those of the caudiciforms, are of very small seedlings and I have larger plants in my own collection. Obviously the authors ordered some seedling plants from a nursery and then photographed them. Many of the pictures also show only the top of the plant and not its base or the pot it is growing in which can be a bit annoying for those small caudiciform plants. Otherwise I cannot complain and this book is amoung the most valuable in my collection. It has top quality pictures of the mesembryanthemums and many other plants so this makes up for the bad pictures. The authors have fixed the problems with this book in their new book "Succulents II, The New Illustrated Dictionary". Makes a great complement to the Preston-Mafham book on Cacti.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good beginning.
Comment: "Succulents: The Illustrated Dictionary", is the original work of these two partner authors. This concise original offers hundreds of succulents, beautiful and strange, in scientific names. The photographs are as beautiful as "Cacti: The Illustrated Dictionary", but more close up. However, for this guide to be complete, the sequel also needs to be bought along with the original. "Succulents 2" is almost identical to the original in photo and binding quality, which are fine. However, you may as well be purchasing half a book if you only buy one of the series. Both are needed for completion.
The content is rich, featuring different succulent families, such as the poisonous "Euphorbia" genus. (I am still waiting to purchase the sequel to find more interesting families.) When you have these, there is not a chance that you will misidentify differing species.
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Title: Succulents II: The New Illustrated Dictionary by Maurizio Sajeva, Mariangela Costanzo ISBN: 0881924490 Publisher: Timber Press (OR) Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Complete Book of Cacti & Succulents by Terry Hewitt ISBN: 0789416573 Publisher: DK Publishing Inc Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: 101 Essential Tips: Cacti & Succulents by Terry Hewitt ISBN: 0789410761 Publisher: DK Publishing Inc Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.00 |
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Title: The Cactus Family by Edward F. Anderson ISBN: 0881924989 Publisher: Timber Press (OR) Pub. Date: 16 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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Title: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cacti by Clive Innes, Charles Glass ISBN: 0785813586 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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