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China is a big country which has abundant resources of many precious plants. These plants attract breeders, traders, researchers coming to China to discover. In order to help you to discover this treasury, we collect some useful books.

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Rare and Precious Wild Flowers of China

(volume 1 and 2)

Publishing time: 1999

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Language: English

On her extensive land area of 9.6 million square kilometre with complex natural conditions of frigid, temperate and tropical zones from the north down to the south. China boasts a flora of over 30,000 species of higher plants-one of the richest in the Northern Hemisphere. Many of the important garden plants, such as cymbidiums, chrysanthemums, camellias, rhododendrons, Japanese apricot (prunus mume Sieb.et Zucc). magnolias, primulas, gentians and the dove tree are native to this land. China is one of the centres of origin of cultivated flowers in the world.

But many kinds of marvellous and valuable wild flowers native to China are still not known for many people. Rare and Precious Wild Flowers of China as an introduction about the abundant resources of flowers in China, covers 1000 wild ornamental plants and is to be published in three volumes, each giving accounts of over 300 species or infraspecific taxa of them. The angiosperms are arranged according to the order of families of Hutchinson's system of classification with minor supplements. For each plant are included its Latin name, family name, morphological description, geographical distribution, habitat, means of propagation, merit and use in horticulture, accompanied by an exquisite colour photograph. References and index of Latin names are appended at the end.

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