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Heliconia an Identification Guide

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I live in El Salvador, Central America, and love to collect different varieties of plants, especially heliconias, in the wilderness. This book has been an excellent guide for identifying the various species of Heliconias that I encounter. The photographs are great too!!

fantastic, this is the book for those wanting information on heliconias. hundreds of color photographs make for easy identification. the book also describes care, hybridization and related subjects regarding heliconias.

I grow heliconias and some other tropical plants. It's become very difficult to identify them since they are known to many names all over the world. Berry and Kress are very clever suggesting to use thier classification and popular names so everybody would understand what others are talking about.

This is the only late 20th century book I know of which deals with this genus of plantS in such a thorough and knowledgeable manner. It is primarily a photo book, but one that includes the best and most up-to-date info on this glorious group of plants. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Robert Lee Riffle, authof of the award-winning book, THE TROPICAL LOOK

No other book is more explicit on identifying heliconias, It is the best on the subject and should be used as a guide for other to further explain botanical subjects, on this or another species of plants.

I've been trying to order this book for over 5 months with continuous delays. I'm not sure that amazon is ever able to
actually procure this book which is excellent.

Excellent book. Great help in cultivating and identifying Heliconia. Wish some commercial growers would read this then label their plants accordingly. One can only hope for a ginger book in the future.

If you like flowering plants, especially Heliconia, this book is a MUST! Nice photos of each taxon too.

There are very few publications on Heliconia's so to get a book that is specific is excellent. The photo's are great with each variety of Haleconia identified by photo, origin etc. I have found it easy to use and have been inspired to learn more about Heliconia's.

I am so excited to finally have a copy of Heliconia an Identification Guide. It was out of print and I waited a long time. I finally emailed the publisher and to my surprised they were reprinting it in July. It is a wealth of knowledge and information, complete with color photosgraph which are in my opinion essential. If you are into gardening and tropicals in peticular you won't be dissapointed.