Inhalt:
A Big book with unusual encyclopedic coverage of the entire family Cactaceae: 125 genera and 1811 species. This monumental tome is the first English language treatment of all the genera and species of cacti since the monograph by Britton & Rose in 1919-1923. The important point about this book is Dr. Anderson's treatment of ALL cacti species throughout their natural ranges in the world. Additionally, this is a book that includes almost all aspects of the natural history of cacti, their uses from fishhooks to narcotics, their cultivation, and descriptions of virtually all the nearly two thousand species! The first four chapters deal with the distinct features: fundamentals/morphology/structure, plus conservation and cultivation of cacti. The enormous amounts of descriptions are short, but information-packed.
