Whats the best Plant Book

Cackett

Cackett

Large Fish
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Oct 22, 2002
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HELP ME!!!
i after a Good cheap plant book that gives List of plants what they look like and conditions for that plant.. thing is i find a few books on the net and i don't want to buy them and find its not what im after.. with 60 plants in it im after Loads of plants and what they look liek i don't mind spendign The cash if the books good but i need pics and Info.. on it.. SO what books you got That can help me on plants. *thumbsupsmiley*
thanks Andy
 

Matt Nace

Matt Nace

Superstar Fish
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Oct 22, 2002
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not sure of books..none around here that I can mention.

Here is a good online place..its free!

http://www.tropica.com/default.asp

and here they show you intank pics of what they are selling

http://www.aquabotanic.com/4saleplant.htmsorry I could not give you a book.
 

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ronrca

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I have the Tropica book that has the same info. on their website and a little more. I like it.
 

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ronrca

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I had to buy it from Big Al's. It costed me around $20Cn. Im sure that a book that nice would cost something. Maybe it is different than the one you have Cloth.
 

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ronrca

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Yes but with more pictures of tank with plants and fish. Not just little pics but full page full color pics. Is also has info. on other things such as the company, their greenhouses, how they maintain they, how they grow the plants, filteration and more. I think it has more than the website.
 

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colesea

Superstar Fish
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Oct 22, 2002
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Hmmm....<G>

-Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Candada- 2nd Edition by The Late Henry A. Gleason, Ph.D. and Arthur Cronquist, Ph.D. published by The New York Botanical Garden.

No pictures, biblical sized type, three inches thick...*sigh* but it is extreamly comprehensive with identification. Just make sure you have your microscope handy and your degree in botany completed ;D.

-A Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States- by Ralph W. Tiner, Jr. published by The University of Massachuetts Press.

Line drawings of plants, good key for identification, gives habitat requirements of plant and flowering periods. Does key out submerged vegetation as well as shoreline vegetation (roots wet but not submerged plants).

Well, okay, so they're limited to NE US, but for those of you with freshwater tanks that may do some plant collecting from the wild, these books are highly reccommended by moi.  I've both of them in my classes, espeically with wetland deliniations. But they are...ah...jargon intense.

There is my guide I left in the store *drats* that has a very good plant section with pictures and all tank requirements. It's the Schuman guide to Marine and Freshwater plants and animals, or something like that (it has a picture of a Percula in an anemoe on the blue cover).  Pretty easy to understand and has SA and exotic plant varieties in it.
~~Colesea
 

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