Resources Tagged: Shrubs

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  1. Familiar Trees and Cultivated Plants of Jamaica

    1958-01-01 A traveller's guide to some of the common trees, shrubs, vines and crop plants. 77 pgs, illustrations
    Jamaica Vines Crops Crop Plants Shrubs Useful Tree Cultivated Plants Trees

  2. Field guide to common Trees & Shrubs of East Africa

    East Africa boasts a tremendous natural wealth of flora – indigenous, naturalized and exotic. This field guide features some 600 of the trees, shrubs, palms and mangroves commonly found in the region. Species accounts include information about habitat, bark, leaves, flowers and fruit, and general...
    Africa Shrubs Trees East Africa

  3. Native Trees & Shrubs of the Hawaiian Islands

    This extensive study gives botanical data about the trees and shrubs of Hawaii with a clarity that can be easily understood by everyone. The author describes the plants, gives common names, mainland equivalents--if there are any--and tells their uses in the changing world of the Pacific Islands....
    Hawaii Trees Shrubs

  4. The Guide to Garden Shrubs and Trees: (Including Woody Vines) Their Identity and Culture

    1965-01-01 This book presents, in simple form, the descriptions and culture of the 500 species most likely to interest the average home gardener, leaving out those difficult to find or of interest only to the specialist. It also suggest their chief use in the garaden, which, in these days of high labor...
    Trees Shrubs Woody Plants

  5. Useful Trees and Shrubs for Ethiopia: Identification, Propagation, and Management for Agricultural and Pastoral Communities

    One of the main aims of this book is to benefit the rural people of Ethiopia by encouraging them to grow more trees and shrubs of a wider variety of species than they have up to now. It provides information on a selection of useful tree and shrub species for the range of agroclimatic conditions...
    Pastoral Systems Trees Shrubs Useful Tree Tree crops Multipurpose trees Multipurpose Shrubs Ethiopia East Africa

  6. The Shrubs and Woody Vines of Florida: A Reference and Field Guide

    More than 550 woody vines and shrubs native to Florida are covered in this easy-to-use field guide with line drawings and color photos. Useful to professional botanists as well as landscape architects and homeowners.
    Ornamental climbin... Florida Shrubs

  7. Firewood Crops: Shrub and Tree Species for Energy Production, Vol. 1 & 2

    Key Resource 1980-01-01 Become an Energy Farmer. This book is for any country in the world, not just the USA. If you want to plant something and have the sun, the rain and nature do the work for you of making your fuel to run your car or run a generator or to be converted to sugar and then to alcohol...or even plant...
    Useful Tree Multipurpose trees Multipurpose Shrubs Shrubs Trees Firewood crops Firewood

  8. Trees and Shrubs of the Sahel: Their Characteristics and Uses

    1983-01-19 This book has been written primarily to assist practising foresters, agriculturists, livestock experts, general land use planners, etc., who work with shrubs and trees in the field. Starting with a short botanical profile, including colour photographs, the botanical abstract summarizes the...
    Botany Africa-Sahel Trees Shrubs

  9. The effect of shrub density on biomass production in runoff farming in arid zones

    1990-10-01 The objective of the present proposal is the investigation and quantification of these essential productivity parameters: transpiration, biomass production and primary productivity (carbon and nitrogen uptake and assimilation) of Acacia saligna as affected by planting density and intercrop. No...
    biomass Shrubs Runoff Farming

  10. Tagasaste: A Productive Browse Shrub for Sustainable Agriculture

    1995-01-01 Tagasaste is a hardy, fast growing fodder shrub able to significantly increase livestock production. Tagasaste seeks deep soil moisture and takes up subsoil nutrients which are lost to normal pasture or crop plants. 132 pages, illustrations, photos
    Fodder plants Shrubs Australia Forage Plants