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This stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Japanese Plants lavishly showcases botanical art depicting choice examples from this popular group of plants, all sourced from Kew's archvies.

Hardy Heathers is afully illustratedmonograph thatdescribes all Calluna,Daboecia and thoseErica species that grownaturally in thenorthern hemisphere.

Sir Joseph Banks was a true botanical adventurer and pioneer. Not only did he reveal the floral wonders of the South Seas, New Zealand and Australia to European eyes, but he set Kew Gardens on its path to becoming the world's foremost botanic garden, bringing in a wealth of rare and useful plants, which had far-reaching impact.

Jan Hendrix is a Dutch contemporary artist. His work is all about observation and analysis; nature and its diff erent ways of representing and telling extended stories. Based on an exhibition at Kew Gardens, this book is a visual report of Hendrix's multiple visits to the Kamay Botany Bay Area of New South Wales over a 20-year period.

This is the first book to describe the forests of the entire tropical Asian region, based on Peter Ashton's working field experience of over 55 years.

The Flora Zambesiaca series provides comprehensive descriptive accounts of the flowering plants andferns native and naturalised in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the CapriviStrip. Volume 14 covers the Cyperaceae in its entirety.

This stunning new series of pocketbooks from Kew offer a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Palms lavishly showcases botanical art depicting choice examples from this iconic plant group, all sourced from Kew's archvies.

The Agius Evolution Garden at Kew Gardens opened in the summer of 2019. Designed by Richard Wilford, with interpretation by Sharon Willoughby, the Evolution Garden is arranged according to the latest classification of plants, based on DNA analysis.

This book is a celebration of the Shirley Sherwood Collection of contemporary botanical art, made over a period of 30 years by Dr Shirley Sherwood and considered the most important private collection of its kind in the world.

In Kew's Big Trees you can discover how one of the world's best tree collections came to be and learn the stories behind 20 of its most intriguing trees.

Chihuly at Kew: Reflections on nature is a celebration of the work of iconic artist Dale Chihuly, who once again is exhibiting his luminous artworks in Kew's spectacular landscape, featuring pieces never seen before in the UK.

This beautiful book is a celebration of the mighty oak, through the passion and vision of artist Mark Frith. Mark has drawn large scale portraits of 22 of Britain's oldest living oaks, with exceptional detail conveyed in these intricate graphite works, bringing the ancient features of these majestic individuals to life on the page.

Treasures of Botanical Art reveals the history, science and beauty of botanical painting.

In 1847 Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) embarked on an expedition to Sikkim in the eastern Himalaya, a region where he would discover a huge number of botanical treasures previouslyunknown to the West.

The High Weald is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty running across West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent. Within it many varied habitats can be found, from planted and tended gardens to lowland heath, meadows and woodlands. Due to this range of habitats, a huge number of wildflowers grow here naturally.

Plants trick, kill, steal and kidnap, and this unique book explores a fascinating world in which plants have turned the tables on animals.

In The Immortal Yew author Tony Hall takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the ancient yew trees of Britain and Ireland, exploring their mythology and folklore.

This beautifully produced book is a celebration of 200 years of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, showcasing the botanical richness of these Gardens through the paintings of 64 exceptional Australian and international botanical artists.

This is the fifth title in the series Repatriation of Kew Herbarium Data for the Flora of Northeastern Brazil, recording a total of 184 species in 18 genera for the whole of the Myrtaceae.

This book lists over 400 Zambian plant remedies with a brief description of plant and habitat, the plant parts used with the recipes and areas, and scientific research where relevant.

Members of the grass family, Poaceae, are almost ubiquitous and are widespread across the Pacific and this detailed key provides a taxonomic reference of the grasses growing throughout this region.

World Checklist of Myrtaceae is a much needed work that lists all validly published names in the family, providing the source of their publication and indicating which names are currently accepted and which are synonyms.

Between 2000 and 2001, 4200 Northeastern Brazilian Compositae specimens were examined, resulting in a checklist of 486 species in 143 genera, with entries listed alphabetically and sorted by state, collector and number.

Macaranga is a genus in the family Euphorbiaceae. There are 257 species, of which 21 are newly described here.

The World Checklist of Dioscoreales lists all validly published names of yams and their allies, providing the source of their publication and indicating which names are currently accepted and which are synonyms, making it a standard nomenclatural reference for further research into this important family.

The World Checklist of Cyperaceae provides a single source guide to the correct names of all sedges, the source of their publication and indicating which names are currently accepted and which are synonyms.

Zambian plants: their vernacular names and uses is a comprehensive list of vernacular names used by the millions of rural Zambians who rely on bush products in their everyday lives.

This checklist records 191 species in 24 genera, with entries listed alphabetically and sorted by state, collector and number.

In this volume, the first thorough account of the family to be published since 1839, 84 genera are recognised, encompassing 2319 species.Foreach recognised species, subspecies, or hybrid, information is provided on its geographic distribution, life-form, and chromosome number.

Reprint from Kew Bulletin vol.35, part 1, 1980