Product Description

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1878035 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.44 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 542 pages

Review
Oh, there are books out there, and I probably have most of them, but Tropical Ornamentals: A Guide seemed like manna from heaven ... Add this book to your gardening library. -- Jan Kalanikai Hawaii Horticulture 20000918 What a bargain: succinct information on hundreds of plants cultivated as ornamentals in the Tropics, with more than 450 full-color close-up photographs showing flowers and foliage! HortIdeas 20000918 This book would find a welcome home on any gardener's bookshelves and make a perfect gift to a newcomer to South Florida. -- Susan Knorr Garden Views 20000905 This book should be on the shelf of all who love tropical plants. -- John E. Bryan Gardening Newsletter 20000905 Lavishly illustrated. -- Stephanie Kendrick Honolulu Star-Bulletin 20001020 This is a place to find some of the most attractive plants we are likely to see in the tropical environment, as well as some of the biggest pests. -- Jan TenBruggencate Honolulu Advertiser 20000925 Fascinating reading. -- John Van de Water Newark Star-Ledger 20001105 No other book comes close to filling the niche that this book fills. -- Clear Englebert FungShway.com 20001107 On nearly every page there is a photograph with information about the genus and species to aid in identifying these plants. National Gardener 20001128 Whistler, an adjunct associate professor at the Lyon Arboretum in Honolulu, has worked with tropical plants for more than 30 years and his experience shows in this book. -- January Adams American Reference Books Annual 20010424 The photos are splendid ... . This is an excellent reference on tropical plants in cultivation. -- Barney Lipscomb Sida, Contributions to Botany 20000426 "It is useful aid for those who wish to transform conservatory, sun-room or glazed porch into a conversation piece decorated with a collection of living holiday souvenirs." Hull Daily Mail 20010519 Extremely useful for identifying the plants most often found in tropical gardens. Florida Gardening 20011013 For more spice, Tropical Ornamentals covers unusual, as well as common, summer bloomers. -- Donna Williamson HortResources Newsletter 20040122

About the Author
W. Arthur Whistler was born near Death Valley, California, to which he attributes his early love of plants and vegetation. After receiving a B.A. and an M.A. at the University of California, he served three years with the U.S. Peace Corps in Western Samoa where he taught high school biology. Resuming his schooling, he received a Ph.D. in Botany at the University of Hawai'i in 1979. Since then he has made numerous research trips to Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tahiti, and elsewhere in the Pacific, working on the ethnobotany, medicinal plants, and flora of the islands. Currently he is a full time consultant with his company, Isle Botanica, and prior to that, he was a botanist with the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Art has published several books on the botany of the Pacific Islands, including Polynesian Herbal Medicine (1992), and has written numerous scientific articles on the medicinal plants, ethnobotany, and floristics of Polynesia. He is an adjunct associate professor at the Lyon Arboretum in Honolulu.