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Author:
Ball, Caroline, author. https://isni.org/isni/0000000032249389
Title:
A splendour of succulents & cacti : illustrations from an eighteenth-century botanical treasury / Caroline Ball.
Publisher:
Bodleian Library Publishing,
Copyright Date:
2023
Description:
134 pages illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Subject:
Succulent plants--Pictorial works.
Botanical illustration.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General.
Botanical illustration.
Succulent plants.
Pictorial works.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
1851245979
9781851245970
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1359609909
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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