Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cactus
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
British Cactus & Succulent Journal
Author: Cactus World
Author: The Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain
Author: Cactus and Succulent Journal of Great Britain
Author: Cactus and Succulent Journal
Author: Cacti and Succulents of Baja California
Author: John PilbeamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780902099982
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bradleya
Author: Lithops
Author: Steven A. HammerPublisher: Mitchell Beazley
ISBN:
Category : Lithops
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Cactus Journal
Author: Agaves of Continental North America
Author: Howard Scott GentryPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816523955
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
New in paperback Spring 2004, this is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow.
