Succulents: The Illustrated Dictionary

by Mariangela Costanzo, Maurizio Sajeva, Mariangela Constanzo

Book Overview

A time-tested reference, this first volume includes some of the best-known and most cultivated genera such as "Agave," "Haworthia," "Kalanchoe," and "Yucca,"

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881922897
• ISBN13: 9780881922899
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.1" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

A must have book for all Succulent Enthusiasts

This is a very well written and illustrated book that covers almost all major groups of succulent plants. The photos are really nice and the book has been a great use for plant identification. The author's have also taken the time to explain very basic knowledge of succulent care, not assuming that the readers are advanced botanists.

the authority on succulents

You will never confuse a succulent from another cactus or in any matter from another succulent.This illustrated dictionary is for the succulent collector who has his or her own collection and is willing to take that extra step into the knowledge of succulents. This isn't a step to step guide on how to care for succulents however a reference guide foe identification and characteristics of the hundreds and hundreds od succulents in the world. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. great coffee table book with excellent photos and top notch quality I look at it everyday to refresh my memory and to discover new succulents some very strange to normal day to day succulents you can see in gardens both public and private. A wonderful and necessary reference tool.

Very Valuable

This book has an excellent selection of photographs that enabled me to choose what to buy from the many catalogs that only list plants by name. If you want propagation information you can get that from the places you order the plants. Great book with great pictures.

An excellent source

This book would be an excellent addition to any succulent lover's library. The photographs are outstanding, and do not focus so much on the flowers of a species as others in the genre do. It is so much easier to identify that unknown plant when you have a picture of the entire plant to go by. The only negative is that "common" names for plants were not given. I would've appreciated that. I also would've liked a "care & cultivation" (general) section for each type of succulent (or wish the authors would write such a book).

Great Succulent Identifier...

This is a really great book, if you want to identify succulents. According to the book, it was inspired by Cacti: The Illustrated Dictionary, same publisher. If you are looking for a book that will help you identify succlents, then this is the book for you. It has wonderful photographs, and I was pleased to be able to identify a mysterious succlent plant of mine within the first 10 minutes of owning the book. The only thing that I did not like, which is why I am not giving this book a 10 is that the entries run up and down instead of left to right. I could not understand why the authors and publishers did not set up the book like the cacti book was set up. In my opinion this made things a little more difficult to read. However, this was the only fault. If you decide to get this book, it would defintely be worth your money.