Eighth edition of 'An Irish Flora' published
President's Garden, UCC. Photograph by Andrew Bradley.
President's Garden, UCC. Photograph by Andrew Bradley.
The eight edition of Webb’s ‘An Irish Flora’, which is published by Cork University Press, will be launched today (28/3/12) in Trinity College Dublin.
The book will be launched by Professor Stephen Blackmore Regius Keeper and Queen’s Botanist, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
This is an indispensable guide for people who like walking or just working in their garden. The last edition appeared in 1996 with 372 pages this new expanded edition has 560 pages with hand-painted illustrations. In addition, trees, shrubs and climbers in winter are now covered for the first time. There is also a new section on those plants that have legal protection in Ireland.
This handbook will provide readers with a clear and reliable means of identifying those plants which grow wild in Ireland. This book is a comprehensive re-working of the classic and standard flora of Ireland which was last published 16 years ago; this will be the eighth edition of that work. It has been brought fully up to date through incorporating the latest in botanical research and it reflects contemporary and modern approaches to plant classification based on recent advances in genetics.
John Parnell is Professor of Systematic Botany at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and Dr Tom Curtis is an Ecological Consultant and a Research Associate in Botany at TCD and an Adjunct Lecturer in Botany and Plant science, NUI Galway.
"This Flora remains the most useful pocket guide to the Irish flora", say experts from the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.
The handbook’s details are ISBN 978-185918-478-3, €35, £30, Hardback, 135 x 194mm, 560 pages.