Cacti
- The Cactus: Native Place & Cultivation 80 pages of colour photos, 20 in Baja California, 10 SW USA, 34 Mexico and 10 in cultivation including some variegates. Japanese but plant names usually in English. 8 ¾ x 7 ¼ 112 pages Cover: Softcover Comments: , Slight wear to cover, New Price: £(GBP)20.00 Special offer! Just £12.50 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Anderson Montes & Taylor - Threatened Cacti of Mexico Looks at 52 species thought to be threatened giving a review based on field study. Well illustrated with colour photos. 136 pages 1994 10 x 7 ¼ Cover: Softcover Comments: Very slight wear to cover, New Price: £(GBP)20.00 Special offer! Just £17.50 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Backeberg - Die Cactaceae The classic monumental work first published 1958 – 62 in 6 volumes, with over 4000 pages and 3500 mainly monochrome illustrations. German language. 9 ½ x 7 Cover: Hardback Comments: Original edition of volume 2 Cereoideae (Hylocereeae - Cereeae (Austorcereinae)), Its quite worn and the spine has split slightly but appears to be holding OK. No dust jacket., Second hand book – please see important information Price: £(GBP)20.00 Special offer! Just £10 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Cover: Hardback Comments: Volume 5 only reprint edition. Cereoideae - Echinocactus through t Mamillaria via many of the more popular Genera, With slip case, New Price: £(GBP)30.00 Special offer! Just £15 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Barthlott - Cacti Whilst it covers the usual range of topics for such a book, such as cultivation and species to grow, this book is unusual for other topics it goes into, such as their uses, the photomicrographs of seeds, pollen and spines, and the inclusion of more epiphytic cacti than most other books. 249 pages including 84 pages of colour photos. 1979 8 ¼ x 5 ½ Cover: Hardback Comments: , Second hand book – please see important information Price: £(GBP)7.50 Special offer! Just £5 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Barthlott & Hunt - Seed-diversity in the Cactaceae subfamily Cactoideae Largely based on research from the 1970s, this book has 86 pages of SEM pictures, 4 species per page with an overall picture and close-up of each, to illustrate the variation within the seeds of these plants. These are supported by an introductory section, descriptions of each specie’s seeds, and a survey of other literature relating to the subject. 2000 9 ¾ x 6 ¾ 173 pages Cover: Softcover Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)20.00 Special offer! August 2022 special offer only! Buy any 2 of these special titles for 15% discount, 3 titles for 25%, 4 titles for 35% off! Add To Basket
Borg - Cacti Although somewhat outdated, it is still a useful classic. 512 pages and 63 pages of B&W photos. 1970 4th edition 8 ½ x 5 ½ Cover: Hardback Comments: 1976 printing, In good condition with dust jacket, Second hand book – please see important information Price: £(GBP)5.00 Special offer! Just £3 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Charles, Graham - Gymnocalycium in Habitat and Culture A welcome new book on a popular genus of Cacti from a well known author in the Cactus Plant World. Based on his extensive experience of cultivating these plants and observing them in habitat, the book is written in his usual informative and easy to read style. After brief introductory sections on their history, characteristics, classification, cultivation, habitat and distribution, the bulk of the book covers the 56 species that he recognises. For each species and recognised sub-species there is a full description, etymology (meaning of the species name), distribution with a map, conservation status, history, commentary and cultivation information. The 624 colour illustrations cover the typical countryside they live in as well as plants in habitat, historic illustrations and plants in cultivation, and show some of the variation in the species. Final sections cover further reading, references, chromosome counts, cristate and variegated plants and Graham’s collection numbers. All that the grower would want. 2009 11 ¼ x 8 ½ 288 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)48.00 Add To Basket
Cullmann & Gotz & Groner - The Encyclopedia of Cacti An introductory book which doesn’t pitch itself at a low level. About one third is introduction to growing the plants, and the rest an A-Z of Cacti to grow with good colour illustrations. 340 pages 1984 10 ¾ x 8 ½ Cover: Hardback Comments: Poor dust jacket which has a severe tear at the back and edge catches elsewhere., Second hand book – please see important information Price: £(GBP)10.00 Special offer! Just £5 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Fearn & Percy - Choice Mammillarias The first author is the owner of Abbey Brook Nurseries in the UK, one of the UK’s longest running Cactus etc nurseries, and the second author worked with him. An A-Z of the most popular and attractive species at that time, with descriptions and other information along with a black and white photo. 1986 second edition (originally 1979) with the number of species increased from 50 to 60. 88 pages 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ Cover: Softcover Comments: , Slight wear to cover, New Price: £(GBP)3.00 Add To Basket
Fearn, Brian - The Echinopsis Hybrids of Abbey Brook Cactus Nursery An attractive booklet celebrating the hybrids produced over 40 years at the nurseries. After a brief introduction to the background of the hybridization, most of the named hybrids are illustrated with colour photos and described along with the parentage of most of them. The main species used in hybrid activities are also described and illustrated. 2009 8 ¼ x 5 ¾ 102 pages Cover: Softcover Comments: Reprint, , Second hand book – please see important information Price: £(GBP)10.00 Add To Basket
Hunt - Cites Cactaceae checklist A technical publication listing synonyms, country where they grow in habitat, bibliography etc 190 pages 1992 9 ½ x 6 Cover: Softcover Comments: , , Second hand book – please see important information Price: £(GBP)5.00 Special offer! Just £3 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Kiesling & Demaio - 100 Cactus Argentinos: Spanish language An updated and expanded edition of the book first published in 2005 – this time Roberto Kiesling has teamed up with Pablo Demaio. The first few pages cover what is a cactus and other basic information, and a few at the end are on cultivation. But the vast majority of the book is details about the plants. 29 species get a full page colour photo with text and supplementary colour photos on the opposite one, whereas the rest get just a single whole page with text and colour photos. The vast majority of the photos are of plants obviously in habitat with some equally obviously in cultivation, and some indeterminate! Spanish 2018 9 ½ x 6 ¾ 160 pages Cover: Softcover Comments: , , New Price: £(GBP)20.00 Special offer! August 2022 special offer only! Buy any 2 of these special titles for 15% discount, 3 titles for 25%, 4 titles for 35% off! Add To Basket
Knebel - Phyllocactus. Compiled by Werner Engelhardt. Edited by Gertrude W. Beahm Biography of Curt Knebel (first published 1949) and a brief history of his nursery. Checklist of his hybrid epiphylls, and notes on cultivation1 photo, 1 graphic. 2003 Reprint 8 ¼ x 5 ¼ 63 pages Cover: Softcover Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)5.00 Special offer! Just £3.50 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Knebel - Phyllokakteen. Ein Buch von Züchtung und Pflege schöner Blumen. Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Werner Engelhardt German edition of Phyllocactus (1949), first published in 1951. 16 photos, 1 photo portrait German 2003 Reprint 8 ¼ x 6 Epric photocopy reprint spiralbound with poor photos. 90 pages Cover: Softcover Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)5.00 Special offer! Just £3.50 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Lutz - Feldliste Eberhard Lutz 1986 bis 1999. Sonderheft 1999 des A.f.M. Lutz field numbers 1-673 for USA native cacti. 2 photos German 1999 8 ¼ x 6 55 pages Cover: Plastic Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)12.50 Special offer! Just £5 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Pavlica & Saeki - Japanese Hybrid Astrophytum This is a book like no other! It is a visual celebration of the fantastic variation that has been bred in to Astrophytums – body form, variegation, flowers - primarily in Japan but more recently in the Czech Republic. And in addition it covers the people involved in it, techniques for hybridisation and propagation especially to accelerate their growth. 1603 colour illustrations 314 pages English 12 x 8 ½ Cover: Laminated Illustrated Hard cover Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)50.00 Special offer! August 2022 special offer only! Buy any 2 of these special titles for 15% discount, 3 titles for 25%, 4 titles for 35% off! Add To Basket
Pilbeam & Bowdery - Ferocactus The well known author of many Cactus etc books teamed up with the person who has probably cultivated more of these plants in the UK to a size impractical for most of us, and pooling their knowledge of cultivation and habitat have provide this well written and attractively illustrated account of these somewhat overlooked genus of plants to show what can be achieved in cultivation. Deserves to make the plants more popular. 2005 10 x 7 ½ 116 pages Cover: Laminated illustrated hard cover Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)30.00 Add To Basket
Pilbeam, John - Echinocereus This well known and respected author does it again, and produces a book for the grower of these popular and attractive plants. Their distribution is covered in some detail with 8 pages of full page maps which shows which states of the USA and Mexico each taxon is found in. Cultivation and classification are covered before going on to consider each taxon, which are based on the New Cactus Lexicon with some more recent additions which the author thinks have merit. Concise descriptions (as the author believes there has been a lot of detail published elsewhere) are given for each along with comments, with colour photos, many in quite large format. 2011 11 ¼ x 8 ½ 176 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)32.00 Special offer! Just £27.50 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Pilbeam, John - Mammillaria: Now & Again This book is a follow up to his classic 1999 book, but in a much more informal manner. It gives the author’s views on the new taxa since then and the ever changing opinions based on DNA, field and other studies, plus his own experiences and views – which he is never short of! Illustrated with many colour photos both in habitat and cultivation. 2017 11 x 8 ½ 242 pages Cover: Hardback Comments: , New Price: £(GBP)37.00 Special offer! Just £25 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Šeda & Sedlák - Mediolobivia - Kaktusy Special German Language A colourful special on the plants in this group within the Rebutias – depending on whichever classification you August accept! Descriptions plus many colour photos German Language. 2011 9 x 6 36 pages. Cover: Softcover Comments: , , New Price: £(GBP)6.00 Special offer! Just £4 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Slaba - Yellow Flowering Sulcorebutia - Kaktusy Special German Language The title is a bit of a tease as you will also see photos of other coloured flowers, but it concentrates on the predominantly yellow species. Descriptions and plenty of colour photos. German Language. 2012 9 x 6 36 pages. Cover: Softcover Comments: , , New Price: £(GBP)6.00 Special offer! Just £4 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
Supplie - Epiphyllum volume 2 A second selection of 550 colour photos arranged A-Z and includes the parentage of 45 new hybrids. 2007 8 ½ x 6 80 pages Cover: Laminated Illustrated Hard cover Comments: , , New Price: £(GBP)15.00 Special offer! Just £7 until the end of August 2022 Add To Basket
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