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Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families

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My father used to remark, when offered coffee with cream, "If I wanted a milkshake, I would have asked for one." My (equally snide) remark concerning this book: "If I wanted a coloring book, I would have asked for one." As such, it is a nice one, with simplified outline drawings suitable for coloring. The information presented is fairly basic but well presented. The problem is that the information page for each set of drawings wound up on the obverse side of the drawing page, rather than side-by-side in a double page spread. This makes it so inconvenient (flipping back and forth to see the drawings, then the information), that the book is almost useless as a learning device. Seeing unrelated information and drawings side-by-side is quite confusing. And, of course, the price is a bit high.

Very pleased that this is both a botany book, covering basic principles of botany, and at the same time an 'adult' colouring book (a la Anatomy or Physiology colouring books), which allows you to actively reinforce your learning by colouring in the plant sections accompanying what you are reading. Very nice book.

This is an excellent coloring book with outstanding detail. Just be aware you need to purchase colored pencils. I spend an hour each evening coloring a few pages. Its a great learning tool!.

I took this book out of the library and thought it was so terrific that I immediately ordered one for myself. Problem was, the pages are printed wrong, so that the page that should appear on the left is on the right and vice versa. You can tell right away because the page numbers are way in the inside corner by the binding instead of being on the outer edge. The pages are still in the correct order. However, when you get to the plant family descriptions, the illustration is supposed to be on the right and the description on the left as you hold the book open. Instead, the illustrations are printed on the back of the same sheet of paper as the descriptions. This means, for example, the Pea Family illustration appears next to the Dogwood Family description. So don't buy this book from Amazon. When I returned the first defective book, they sent me another defective one. Obviously they have a pile of them in the warehouse, and they don't check to be sure the replacement is OK. Too bad, because this is such a well-written book.

This book is a must have for anyone enrolled in a botany or plant science class. This has definetly helped me with cell structure id, and basic plant morphology.

I have been looking for a book that addresses the basics of Botany for a long time. This book immediately explains and divides the plants into divisions, class, and families. I know there are literally thousands of families but they showed a good many common ones. I use the book to help me identify plants. It also helps me to draw them in my pen and ink sketches.

I find this guide most helpful as a learning tool for the subject of Botany. The information set out is well presented along with the detailed illustrations which help further clarify the subject matter. Great study tool!

This book was a gift and the person I got it for loved it! He said it was a very informative book and he was learning alot about plants and flowers from it.

This book includes well drawn pictures of cell biology, as well as botany. All of the structures are easy to distinguish. I will be using it with another book in place of my biology text this winter term. The two together were less than half the price of the big biology text I had been using. It looks really good!

very good book! enjoyed good illustrations

even can be used as a coloring book.

love it!