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ISBN # 0-911266-26-7

An All Color Pictorial Reference Book...

... of the most showy and curious Tropicalia from all important warm-climate families in cultivation, in 1630 genera, of great help for plant identification to fanciers, professionals and libraries, by the author of "Exotica", "Hortica", "Exotic House Plant" and other horticultural books. Tropica is particularly valuable to scholars of tropical flora, and its contents go far beyond the usual collections, reaching out to capture the rainbow splendor of warm-climate plant life.

Endeavoring to cover all that is beautiful, ornamental, or useful in mild region gardens; in colder climate, the greenhouse or hospitable home. This includes: Exotic tropical and semi-tropical plants; Flowering and Fruited trees and shrubs; Palms and Conifers; Ferns; Vines; Carnivorous plants; Cacti and other Succulents; Bulbous and Cormous plants; Grasses and Bamboos; also Popular Blooming plants for festive occasions.

This Colorama has been bought together by the author during a lifetime in the filed of horticulture and of study, including 30 years of living or of travel in all the world's tropical and near-tropic floristic zones.

In his photography, Dr. Graf is sharing with the interested reader his association with plants as he saw them, in the greenhouse ranges of the century old Roehrs Exotic Nurseries and elsewhere in this country, as well as overseas. In addition, he has worked with or visited the collections of all important botanical gardens of the photographed the habitats of exotic plants, capturing glimpses of their life in alien settings. Some species from colder climates are included, as many of them maybe - and are- successfully grown within the equatorial belt at higher altitudes; or they may be utilized as plants on the terrace, and the cool foyers of office buildings.