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02629aam a2200337 i 4500 001 DF3219A4141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 221124t20232023enka b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1851245979 020 $a 9781851245970 035 $a (OCoLC)1359609909 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d TOH $d YDX $d SILO 050 4 $a SB438 $b .B35 2023 082 04 $a 635.95250222 $2 23 100 1 $a Ball, Caroline, $e author. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000032249389 245 12 $a A splendour of succulents & cacti : $b illustrations from an eighteenth-century botanical treasury / $c Caroline Ball. 246 30 $a Splendour of succulents and cacti 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Bodleian Library Publishing, $c 2023. 300 $a 134 pages $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 20 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 8 $a Succulents, especially cacti, are the current focus of serious ecological studies but also the darlings of designers and style influencers. Their endearing, characterful looks have given them the status of trendy ?plant pets?.00But succulentomania is not new. While these plants have always been part of the landscape in the dry vastnesses of the Americas, Australia and Africa, curiosities such as furry-flowered stapeliads and euphorbias like snakes were a source of fascination for early European plant collectors ? and in eighteenth-century Bavaria a prosperous apothecary grew an ?American aloe? that astounded all who saw it.00This apothecary, Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, was the mastermind behind a groundbreaking book in which he aimed to include thousands of plants from all over the world, describing their individual characteristics and commissioning magnificent colour illustrations of each specimen. The succulents he featured are reproduced here in all their splendour. We may no longer look to them to treat gangrene, manufacture glass or disperse kidney stones, but succulents are proving of great interest to modern medicine and agriculture, and we can marvel at them afresh not only as wonders of nature but also as works of art. 650 0 $a Succulent plants $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Botanical illustration. 650 7 $a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Botanical illustration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836840 650 7 $a Succulent plants. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01137090 655 7 $a Pictorial works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423874 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517012354.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF3219A4141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search