Australian Rainforest Fruits

Auteur

Wendy Cooper is the author of two previous titles specializing in fruits of the Australian rainforest. She received a Cassowary Award from The Wet Tropics Management Authority in recognition of her second book Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest. As a Research Associate at the Australian Tropical Herbarium she is involved in taxonomic studies of selected rainforest genera.

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"This book is an abbreviated extraction of the 2436 species covered in more detail in 'Fruits of the Australian tropical rainforest' published by Nokomis Editions in 2004, but includes 24 species not illustrated in previous editions of the 'Fruit book."--Introduction.

Résumé
This beautifully illustrated field guide covers 504 of the most common fruiting plants found in Australia's eastern rainforests, as well as a few species that are rare in the wild but generally well-known. These spectacular plants can be seen from Cape York to Victoria, with some species also found in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and overseas.