Field Guide to Eucalypts -
Volume 2
South-western and Southern
Australia
by M.I.H. Brooker &
D.A. Kleinig
(Australian Publication)
Hardcover
190 x 270mm
428pp
Published by Bloomings Books, Hawthorn VIC.
R.R.P.$129.90
ISBN 1-876473-28-2
As reviewed in The Australian Woodworker
Field Guide to Eucalypts - Volume 2 South-western and Southern Australia, covers all known eucalypt species from far-western New South Wales north of the river Darling, South Australia above the Murray, and the southern half of Western Australia south of 26° latitude including the Great Victoria Desert. The genus Eucalyptus includes over 800 species of which 326 are treated here.
All eucalypt species and subspecies have been photographed in their natural habitat, and each is described with an emphasis on the more important diagnostic features.
Drawings are provided to illustrate the meaning of botanical terms for leaf and bud shape, male and female flower parts as well as fruit, along with photographs of types of bark, various glands, seedling types, and other features of eucalypt plants. The book contains a key to eucalypts, listing the main distinguishing features, which would be useful for someone to make an identification based on a verbal description.
The key links to the species colour plate pages, which contain the identifying photographs and further details of distribution and other information such as size of fruit, bud and leaves in various stages of growth. The species colour plates show the full tree in situ, plus a close up of the bark, the bud and fruit. Some have close up photos of leaves and bud in flower.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Metric
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
History of the genus Eucalyptus
Reliability of the characters
used in assessing a plant
The
eucalypt plant
Size and habit
Lignotubers
Bark
Bark categories
Seed, germination and cotyledons
Leaf phases
Characteristics of
individual leaves
Oil glands in the leaves
Inflorescences
Peduncles
Pedicels
Flower bud numbers
Flower bud
Flower bud markings,
colour and operculum
Male flower parts
Female flower parts
Flowering
Fruit
Fruit shape
Pith
Distributional data
Names of species used in this field guide
The system of classification
Keys
for the identification of eucalypts
New South Wales
(i) Western
and northern plains and rivers, including low ranges within the area
(ii)
Western slopes, tablelands and ranges
(iii) Coast and adjacent low hills
(to 300 m or 1000 ft above sea level)
and Australian Capital Territory (Jervis
Bay area)
Australian Capital Territory (Canberra area)
Victoria
South Australia
Tasmania
Digest
and Plates of Species
Glossary
Bibliography and References
Appendix
Index