Succulents - Hewitt Terry

One of the great wonders of nature is the ability of plantsto adapt and survive in the harshest of environments.Growing mostly in desert areas, succulents provide manyfascinating examples of this. Among this plant groupthere is an astonishing variety of size, shape and hueto be found, ranging from Testudinaria elephantipes,with its swollen hemispherical wooden base, to stoneplants such as Lithops, that are little more than a pairof swollen leaves. This book features 50 of the bestvarieties, and explains... Zobrazit více