Trees of Victoria and adjoining areas / Leon Costermans.
Material type: TextFrankston, Vic. : Costermans Publishing, c2006Edition: Sixth editionDescription: v, 164 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 16 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0959910549 :
- 582.1609945 22
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | State Botanical Collection | RBG | D 581.9945 TRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | RBGM00002470 |
Previous ed.: 1994.
Includes index.
Bibliography p. 159.
1. Getting to know the bush -- 2. Some broad national regions and associated vegetation. Commond and widespread species; Mountain forests and moist valleys; East Gippsland and South Coast NSW; Western and northern areas -- 3. The major tree genera in South-eastern Australia. Eucalypts (the gums; the 'rough-barked gums'; the boxes; the peppermints; the 'half-barked ashes' of tall forests; the stringybarks (and stringybarked ashes); some rough-barked eucalypts of other groups; the dry-country Mallee eucalypts); Tea-trees; Paperbarks or honey-myrtles; Wattles; Banksias; Sheoaks and bulloaks; Cypress-pines -- Appendices.
Describes some 250 species of trees and small shrubs that are native to Victoria, southern New South Wales (including the ACT) and South Australia eastwards from Adelaide providing clear illustrations and descriptions.