Flora of Melbourne : a guide to the indigenous plants of the greater Melbourne area / Marilyn Bull ; with line drawings by George Stolfo
- Bib ID:
- 6421692
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bull, Marilyn, author
- Edition:
- Fourth, enlarged, fully revised edition.
- Description:
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- [Carlton, Victoria] : Hyland House Publishing, 2014
- ©2014
- xvi, 608 pages : illustrations (cheifly colour), colour maps ; 30 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781864471229 (hardback)
- Summary:
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Annotation. The Flora of Melbourne is a resource that assists in the recognition and botanical identification of species while encouraging an awareness of the interrelationships between indigenous plants and animals. It identifies the usefulness of these species, to the local Aborigines in the past, and to all who wish to understand our diminishing natural environment in the present.The Flora of Melbourne works on a few different levels. It provides an important record of the plant life that developed in the Greater Melbourne area over a long period of time. It indicates the probable distribution of plant communities and the species within them prior to European settlement, based on historical data, remnant vegetation, and the prevailing climatic and soil conditions of each area. At another level it records the breakdown of these important relationships that has led to both the extinction of individual species and the reduction in the range of species from a number of locations across the entire Melbourne area.
- Notes:
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- "First published 1991 by Society for Growing Australian Plants Maroondah, Inc."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-553) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Stolfo, George, illustrator
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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