PACHYPODIUM & ADENIUM

First Edition; 80 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photographs and distribution maps, green cloth, a fine copy in the dust jacket.

Editor's note: 'This Handbook, the fifth in the series, is the first to acknowledge the increasing popularity of growing pachycaul and caudiciform plants. These firm favourites among collectors of succulent plants are the only succulent representatives of the botanical Family Apocynaceae, which includes some 215 genera and 2,100 species. The author, Gordon Rowley, has been growing succulents for over 50 years and has been an enthusiastic advocate of these particular plants for much of that period. The 80 page Handbook has 109 full colour photographs and 39 distribution maps. Many of the photographs have been taken as close ups so the beauty of the flowers can be fully appreciated and, with our new larger page format, this enables the collector to enjoy seeing more of these attractive and colourful plants. Pachypodiums come from Africa and Madagascar and all 14 species (plus their subspecies & varieties) are represented in full colour in the Handbook. Adenium is also well represented with many colour photographs of these plants and their spectacular flowers. The new cultivars now being bred in Tucson, Arizona, are included.

'Not only have we tried to capture the full beauty of the Pachypodium and Adenium flowers in our new Handbook, but we have also included many pictures of the plants in habitat and cultivation to show their natural grace and charm. With new field explorations into the remote areas of Madagascar we are able to bring to the collector details of the most recently described discoveries in the genus Pachypodium. The main body of the book has been split to give each of the 2 genera its own section on History, Habit, Flowers, Habitats and native uses, Key to species and subspecies, and Checklist of names.'