Breuer & Marks -  Haworthia, Haworthiopsis and Tulista: A guide for collectors and growers
This is a book for the very enthusiastic Haworthia grower. The authors are noted growers of these plants, and have used their experience of growing them in cultivation to present their view on the grouping of the plants based on Breuer’s previous publications using their morphological characteristics, distribution, and habitat ecology – no DNA analysis here! They use the concept of a cluster with a lower grouping of aggregate to bring together the plants they believe are closely related. The names of the species for each are listed and known localities plotted on a map along with their main features. The aim is to help growers identify the plants they have, and those they would like to acquire with a name they hope will be helpful. Each name is illustrated with quite a lot of plants in cultivation with habitat identification and try to show the variation from different locations aided by a distribution map. Brief introductory sections cover the plants history and cultivation. 2023 301 pages laminated illustrated hardback 12 x 8 ½
 
Cover: Laminated Illustrated Hard cover
Comments: All my original stock has now sold - if there are enough further enquiries I will obtain some more., , New
Price: £(GBP)50.00
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Calhoun, Scott -  The Gardener's Guide to Cactus
An introductory book covering 100 of the most attractive species with an emphasis on their use in landscaping and large pot cultivation. Aimed at the popular market, you have to like the common names under which the plants are listed – my favourite is “Lemon Pledge-Scented Pincushion” (for Mam baumii). Nevertheless there is much of interest in this book which starts with the usual introductory sections before going on to the plants organised by plant form and the information includes culinary uses! The colour photos include both plants in cultivation – in pots as well as bedded out - and habitat and there are some impressive clumps and attractive examples so well worth the inexpensive cost. 2012 9 x 8 227 pages
 
Cover: Softcover
Comments: , Slight wear to its cover especially corners (RRP £16.99), New
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Carruthers & Ginns -  Echeverias
Concentrates on this attractive genus of leaf succulents, with information on habitat and cultivation as well as the species and cultivars. 100 pages plus 24 pages of colour photos. 1973 9 ¾ x 6
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: Some fading to spine otherwise in remarkable condition for its age, Second hand book – please see important information
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Craib -  Hystrix - The natural habitat and cultivation of some southern African succulent Pelargoniums Part 1
Observations on the ecology of South African Geraniaceae, and hints on their cultivation. Also includes hints on seed raising. 1992 8 ¼ x 5 ½ 27 pages
 
Cover: Softcover
Comments: , New
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Dyer, R A -  Flora of Southern Africa volume 27 part 4 - Brachystelma, Ceropegia and Riocreuxia
Key to the species with detailed descriptions and other information with sketches. 1980 9 ½ x 7 91 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
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Fransden, Robin -  Succulents of Southern Africa
The author has set out to produce the most comprehensive guide to these plants yet produced, and whilst it doesn’t cover every known specie it includes a tremendous number of them. After a brief introduction to the area and plants, there are also brief biographies of the main personalities who discovered and made the plants better known. The vast majority of the book covers the plants by family with concise descriptions on one page and colour photos, which have come from a number of sources, on the opposite page to the text. A glossary and selected bibliography are also included. It is a substantial book and has certainly achieved its aim. 2017 10 ½ x 8 ½ 504 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: , , New
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Graham -  Growing Succulent Plants including Cacti
Covers cultivation, with a large part of the book detailing species to grow, with particular emphasis on the "other" succulents. 200 pages including 8 pages of colour photos and a number of line sketches. 1987 9 ½ x 6 ¼
 
Cover: Hardback
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Cover: Hardback
Comments: Ex library book with just small number labels on front of cover and spine. In proper plastic cover. In very good condition, Second hand book – please see important information
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Higgins -  Succulents in Cultivation
A classic book of its time, providing what might seem limited information by modern standards, but enhanced with 8 pages of charming composite colour paintings. 8 ¾ x 5 ½ 1960 168 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: , Dust jacket in much better coindition than usually - I think someone has applied a neat sticky clear plastic to its surface. And book generally very well preserved, Second hand book – please see important information
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Jacobsen -  Lexicon of Succulent Plants
Although less comprehensive than the 3 volume handbook, it is more recent and includes some extra species. An affordable and manageable reference to the other succulents which is still useful. 664 pages 1974 9 ½ x 7
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: Small tears to the top of the spine of the dust jacket but generally in much better condition than usually found in., Second hand book – please see important information
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Jacobsen -  A Handbook of Succulent Plants
The classic text still unsurpassed for its detail. In three volumes. 1960 9 ½ x 6 ½ 1442 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: , Reprint edition in the single box, which has little wear and the books inside are very good, Second hand book – please see important information
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Jacobsen -  Succulent Plants
An early attempt to bring together the wide range of the other succulent in one book, with descriptions and B&W photos. 2nd edition 1946 9 ¾ x 7 ¼ 293 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: No dust jacket - as published? Pages a little bit wavy and curl to bottom corner, Second hand book – please see important information
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Jezek & Kunte -  The Complete Encyclopedia of Succulents
Arranged by family, this books covers a wide range of succulent plants, both those which are familiar as well as many of the more unusual and desirable species, and includes Bromeliads. Each specie is briefly described with cultivation information, and illustrated with a colour photo, a number of which are habitat photos - some are quite impressive. 2005 9 ½ x 6 ¾ 303 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
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Moller & Becker -  Field Guide to the Succulent Euphorbias of Southern Africa
Starting with brief sections on what is a Euphorbia, their evolution, taxonomy, conservation, cultivation and uses the major part of the book is details of the plants. Divided in to 18 groups explained in the introduction each species is given a page for the description, habitat etc, distribution map and photos showing the whole plant and close ups of flowers and fruit and in some cases stem detail. Taxonomy table, glossary, bibliography and index complete the book. 9 ¾ x 6 ¾ 320 pages 2019
 
Cover: Laminated Illustrated Hard cover
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Nel -  Gibbaeum Handbook
Brief introduction and distribution comments are followed by a key and very detailed descriptions and commentary. 7 attractive colour paintings plus 50 black and photos and sketches. After all this time this is still the only book on these charismatic plants. 1953 10 x 7 ½ 117 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: , Dust jacket has some small tears and a small area of loss and is in a good plastic cover to preserve is as best possible - at least it hast a dust wrapper! Body of book has brown(foxing) marks to the extreme edge of pages. A slightly rough copy - but how often do you find one which isn't?!, Second hand book – please see important information
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Newton, Len -  Peter Bally and his succulent plant legacy
A biography, bibliography, and celebration of Peter Bally (1895-1980). 6 text-figs (incl. 3 portraits) 1999 8 ¼ x 5 ¾ 30 pages
 
Cover: Softcover
Comments: Slightly worn, New
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Payne, Helen -  Plant jewels of the High Country: "Sempervivums and Sedums"
A personal account of how the author came to grow the plants and develop her nursery supplying Sempervivums and Sedums, it then goes on for the majority of the book to describe a variety of species and cultivars then available. Quite a few colour photos of widely varying quality. 1972 10 x 7 ¼ 145 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: , Fading to the spine and some other areas of the dust jacket which is in a good plastic cover., Second hand book – please see important information
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Pilbeam, John -  Stapeliads: Refreshed
Confused by all the new genera names which have appeared in recent years for these plants, and the differences in opinions in classification? Then you’re no longer alone – the writer of so many books on cacti & other succulent plants has taken up the challenge to not only help us to get to grips with the various classifications, but more importantly for the grower and collector of these distinctive plants what the plants and flowers actually look like. Taking no view on which classification to follow, the genera are arranged and documented so that the reader can work out what its name is in whichever classification the reader wishes to know. And for the ordinary grower who isn’t concerned about classification it has 686 colour photos and for those you would like to obtain you can find out under what name(s) it might be found in catalogues. For those who just like plants it is a marvellous picture book. As ever from the author and the publisher (BCSS) it is very well produced. Will be a classic for a very long time like the author’s other books. Updated and expanded edition of the 2010 original with more pages and pictures with names brought even more up to date than before. 2014 11 x 8 ½ 221 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
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Pritchard ed Lawant -  Jatropha
A useful book on a poorly known Genus, it is based on the draft started by Albert Pritchard who had seen plants in habitat and cultivated as wide a range of species as was possible. With Albert’s death Pjotr Lawant completed it and brought it up to date in the same style that Albert had used. 71 more or less succulent species are covered, along with cultivation, glossary, literature, list of all species and synonyms with a good number of colour photos, historic botanic illustrations and sketches. 2017 11 ½ x 8 ¼ 100 pages
 
Cover: Softcover
Comments: , New
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Sajeva & Costanzo -  Succulents - The Illustrated Dictionary
Whilst Novemberbe not quite so polished as the Preston-Mafham volume on cacti, with its 1200 colour photos it is a very useful book none the less for its illustrations of many of the “other” succulents at an affordable price. 239 pages 1995 Cassell 10 ¾ x 8 ¾
 
Cover: Softcover
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Schulz & Kapitany -  Echeveria Cultivars
This is the book that will get you looking under the bench, the back of the staging and the office window for those plants you use to grow and haven’t worried about too much in recent years! It takes more than 150 of the best cultivars and illustrates them attractively giving concise cultivation and propagation information for each, as well as the expected introductory sections. An enthusiastic book! 2005 11 ¼ x 8 ¾ 208 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: Like new, Second hand book – please see important information
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Cover: Hardback
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Schwantes -  Cultivation of the Mesembryanthemaceae
An early classic with useful information, illustrated with 65 black and white photos. 1954 8 ¾ x 5 ¾ 88 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: , No dust jacket and body reasonable for its age, Second hand book – please see important information
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Smith & Crouch -  Guide to Succulents of Southern Africa
A useful compact introduction to 240 of the more common succulent plants of the area, typically 2 species to a page, with description, one or more colour photos and distribution map. 2009 8 ¼ x 5 ¾ 136 pages
 
Cover: Softcover
Comments: , , New
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Smith & van Wyk -  Aloes in Southern Africa
The first part of the book looks at what is an Aloe, its near relatives, botany and ecology. Then it looks at the species by habitat type after which their possibilities for gardening are considered and finally a short section on their uses. The authors are well known experts on the plants and the book is very well illustrated with many colour photos. 2008 9 x 8 ¼ 136 pages
 
Cover: Softcover
Comments: , New
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Storms -  Growing the Mesembs
A pioneer when published, its main claim to fame was the 4 page of colour pictures of single heads of the main Lithops species – since overtaken by the Cole’s and Hammer’s books. But it is still useful in that it gives brief information and the growing times of many of the other mesembs which helps with watering in cultivation. 1976 9 x 6 26 pages plus 4 pages of colour photos.
 
Cover: Softcover
Comments: , Better condition than many, Second hand book – please see important information
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van Jaarsveld & Thomas (illustrations) -  The Southern African Plectranthus - and the art of turning shade to glade
Following on from his first book on these plants 20 years ago, this is everything you’d hope from this well known botanist. It covers the history of their discovery and cultivation, his hunting for them in their natural habitats, garden uses in suitable climates, hybrids, distribution and ecology before going on to describe each of the 55 known and accepted SA species (and a couple of other) each illustrated with colour photos and a full page botanical illustration by Vicky Thomas. Augustbe not the most popular of plants, but Fernwood Press have produced a book that will be enjoyed by many who haven’t previously been captivated by them. 2006 12 x 9 ¼ 176 pages
 
Cover: Hardback
Comments: , New
Price: £(GBP)25.00
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