A field guide to Banksias

Banksias are among Australia's best known and most attractive native plants. There are fifty-eight named species, and although these differ largely in their size, shape, and habit they share a common beauty and distinctive blooms.

In this book each species is illustrated with colour photogrpahs and fully described in accompanying text by Ivan Holliday, with additional information on cultivation and habitat. Geoffrey Watton's detailed photographs of individual leaves and fruit are also included as a further aid to identification. Indexes of both common and botanical names make for quick, easy reference, and there is a pictorial key to the scientific terms used in the text.

A Field Guide to Banksias is an indispensable handbook, not only for the professional botanist and horticulturalist, but also for all those who are interested in native plants, their propagation and their conservation.