Guide to Succulents of Southern Africa-Neil Crouch(Pdf) torrent

Guide to Succulents of Southern Africa


By Gideon F. Smith, Neil Crouch

Published by Penguin Group in 2009

English, 136 pages


Twenty-five per cent of southern African flora is succulent in nature, and a remarkable forty per cent of the world's succulent plants occur in South Africa. The book will highlight the diversity of succulents that occur in the region with special emphasis on the larger groups –mesems (vygies) and aloes.

The book covers approximately 250 individual species, focusing on the most common and most interesting, and each entry features a photograph and distribution map