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Photographic Atlas of Botany & Guide to Plant Identification

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I have struggled to learn some botany since retiring in 2004. I find this book uniquely helpful in connecting botanical descriptions with the corresponding aspects of the plants being described. The book has excellent photos of just the right features of the plants, and it has the right level of explanation.

An excellent supplemental reference to other technical plant identification works. Pictures are crisp and clear. With this book one is able to review key diagnosic characteristics used for all plant families and then compare details with excellent pictures from each family.

THis is an outstanding resource in an easy to use format. The book is well designed with a wire binder so you can use it and fold it without harm to the book.

Great book to id plants by family. Pictures and diagrams excellent - only problem is size - not usable in the field.

The photography is excellent and would be worth buying just for that. The organization is good and this would help with some of the confusing array of botanical terms used in taxonomic identification. If you are visually oriented this would be a good investment.

When I first spotted this radiant tome in the New York Botanical Garden's bookshop*, I was beside myself with glee and revelation at the ingenuity of some of us humans; especially, in this case, Mr. Castner. What a wonderful reference tool! But wait, it's also concise course in botany, the perfect (well, nearly so as it is a rather large book) field guide, and a stunning visual joy! Who needs clunky and complicated apps when this beautifully arranged and illustrated atlas is the ark of the convenient of botanical reference.

*I am not ashamed to admit that, upon discovering this title at the shop, I went and ordered it through Amazon.com.