Edible. The Illustrated Guide to the World’s Food Plants.

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Edible. The Illustrated Guide to the World’s Food Plants.Various contributors. Provides an exploration of the origins, history, botanical facts, and contemporary culinary uses of hundreds of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, oils, sugars, beverage plants, herbs and spices. Features nearly 500 plant species. Illustrated with 500 colour photographs. A beautiful, unusual and heavy book printed on very fine paper. Global Book Publishing, NSW, Australia, 2008. ISBN 9781740481052 Hardback with dust jacket. 360

There is also an informative guide to suitable materials and plants

Rodney Grapes

Endorsed by the Royal Horticultural Society

Don Mackay

The text describes each plant and explains structure and functions

This authoritive guide is derived from the author’s acclaimed work The Native Trees of New Zealand

either from warm central Polynesia or from temperate Europe

Judith McKay

Photographs from some of the great gardens of the world accompany the text

their choice of plants and their planting combinations

This book is one of a series derived from the New RHS Dictionary of Gardening that are the most detailed and authoritative guides to plants in cultivation

starting out

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