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    Dendrology: Cones, Flowers, Fruits and Seeds

    By Marilena Idžojtić

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    Dendrology: Cones, Flowers, Fruits and Seeds offers a comprehensive overview of the morphology of reproductive organs of woody plants of Europe in one resource. The book contains 2020 woody taxa (845 species, 58 subspecies, 38 varieties, 13 forms, 40 hybrids and 1026 cultivars), belonging to 400 genera and 121 families. It includes 447 taxa of trees and shrubs that are autochthonous in Europe and numerous ornamental species that originate from North America, Asia, South America, Australia and Africa, along with invasive woody species. Accompanied by thousands of original photographs, the book is designed to efficiently guide the reader to accurate identification.

    Other features include taxa organized in alphabetical order of their botanical names, flowering and fruiting time, mode of fruit or seed dispersal, and distribution range, making this a must-have reference for students and researchers in dendrology, botany, forestry, forest management and conservation, arboriculture and horticulture.

    • Includes 2,020 taxa of trees and shrubs important for the European dendrology
    • Provides detailed descriptions of reproductive organs and data on the reproductive biology of the described taxa
    • Contains 6,644 original, high-quality photographs of habits, cones, flowers, fruits and seeds
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateJun 28, 2019
    ISBN9780128196458
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    Dendrology: Cones, Flowers, Fruits and Seeds
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    Marilena Idžojtić

    Professor Marilena Idžojtic, PhD, teaches courses on Dendrology, Horticultural dendrology, Exotic woody plants, Dendroflora in garden, park and landscape design and Applied dendrology the University of Zagreb. She has authored three textbooks on Dendrology and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Forestry. From 2008 to 2012, she served as the Head of the Department of Forest Genetics, Dendrology and Botany and is a former chair of the Dendrology section of the Croatian Botanical Society.

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