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Botany: Books: General Botany

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Suggested Keywords to Search With

Some of the keywords used throughout the catalog would include:

AQUATIC PLANTS
BOTANICAL CHEMISTRY
BOTANY
BOTANY -- HAWAII
DANGEROUS PLANTS
ENDANGERED PLANTS
ENDEMIC PLANTS
ETHNOBOTANY
ETHNOBOTANY -- HAWAII
MYCOLOGY
PALEOETHNOBOTANY
PLANT ANATOMY
PLANT ECOLOGY
PLANT MORPHOLOGY
PLANTS -- MEDICINAL
RARE PLANTS
SEEDLINGS

eBooks - Read it online

This list contains a selection of books available online through the HCC Library.

Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plants and Plant Pests by National Academy Press
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2002
The Pineapple: Botany, Production and Uses by D.P. Bartholomew, R.E. Paull, and K.G. Rohrbach
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2003
Plant Physiology by A. Malcolm Campbell; Christopher J. Paradise
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781944749125
Publication Date: 2016-04-21
Origin, Expansion, and Demise of Plant Species by Donald A. Levin
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2000
Alien Species and Evolution : the Evolutionary Ecology of Exotic Plants, Animals, Microbes, and Interacting Native Species by George W. Cox
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2004
Green Plants: Their Origin and Diversity by Peter R. Bell and Alan R. Hemsley
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2000
Text Book of Botany by N. C. Kumar
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9789350432655
Publication Date: 2008-01-01

On the shelf in the library!

This list contains a selection of books available in the HCC Library.

Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property by Keith Aoki
Call Number: K3876 .A964 2008
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany by Michael Allaby
Call Number: QK9 .C67 1992 (Reference)
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary by James G. Harris and Melinda Woolf Harris
Call Number: QK9 .H37 2001
(Reference)
100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names by Diana Wells
Call Number: QK13 .W46 1997
Flora Mirabilis: How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty by Catherine Herbert Howell
Call Number: QK15 .H695 2009
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families by Janice Glimn-Lacy and Peter B. Kaufman
Call Number: QK45.2 .G57 2006
Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon
Call Number: QK50 .C36 2005
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification by Thomas J. Elpel
Call Number: QK110 .E46 2004
Alteration of Native Hawaiian Vegetation: Effects of Humans, their Activities and Introductions by Linda W. Pratt
Call Number: QK473 .H4 C83 1990 (Hawaii Pacific)
Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaiʻi by Warren L. Wagner, Derral R. Herbst, S.H. Sohmer
Call Number: QK473 .H4 W33 1990
(Hawaii Pacific Reference)
Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants
Call Number: QK474.5 .F39 2011
Survey of 3,000 tropical plant species arranged in phylogenic order using the latest nomenclature and systematics. Each species entry has a detailed botanical description, zone information, distribution and ecology. Additional information includes propagation and cultivation notes.
The New Oxford Book of Food Plants by J.G. Vaughan and C. A. Geissler
Call Number: SB175 .V38 2009
The Biology of Horticulture: An Introductory Textbook by John E. Preece and Paul E. Read
Call Number: SB318 .P74 2005
Plants for Tropical Landscapes by Fred D. Rauch; Paul R. Weissich
Call Number: SB407 .R37 2000 (Hawaii Pacific)
Breeding Dendrobium Orchids in Hawaii by Haruyuki Kamemoto
Call Number: SB409.8.D45 K36 1999 (Hawaii Pacific)
Breeding Anthuriums in Hawaii by Haruyuki Kamemoto; Adelheid R. Kuehnle
Call Number: SB413.A64 K35 1996 (Hawaii Pacific)
The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why by Erik Millstone and Tim Lang
Call Number: TX353 .M55 2008
(Reference)

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