Research Guides: Botany: Books: General Botany

Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog

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Suggested Keywords to Search With

Some of the keywords used throughout the catalog would include:

AQUATIC PLANTS

BOTANICAL CHEMISTRY

BOTANY

BOTANY -- HAWAII

DANGEROUS PLANTS

ENDANGERED PLANTS

ENDEMIC PLANTS

ETHNOBOTANY

ETHNOBOTANY -- HAWAII

MYCOLOGY

PALEOETHNOBOTANY

PLANT ANATOMY

PLANT ECOLOGY

PLANT MORPHOLOGY

PLANTS, MEDICINAL

RARE PLANTS

SEEDLINGS

On the shelf in the library!

This list contains a selection of books available in the HCC Library.

Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants
Call Number: QK474.5 .F39 2011

Survey of 3,000 tropical plant species arranged in phylogenic order using the latest nomenclature and systematics. Each species entry has a detailed botanical description, zone information, distribution and ecology. Additional information includes propagation and cultivation notes.
Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property by Keith Aoki
Call Number: K3876 .A964 2008 (Ocean Collection)
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany by Michael Allaby
Call Number: QK9 .C67 1992 (Reference)
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary by James G. Harris and Melinda Woolf Harris
Call Number: QK9 .H37 2001
(Ocean Collection)
100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names by Diana Wells
Call Number: QK13 .W46 1997
(Ocean Collection, 1st flr)
Flora Mirabilis: How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty by Catherine Herbert Howell
Call Number: QK15 .H695 2009
(Ocean Collection)
Botany Illustrated: Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families by Janice Glimn-Lacy and Peter B. Kaufman
Call Number: QK45.2 .G57 2006 (Ocean Collection)
Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon
Call Number: QK50 .C36 2005 (Ocean Collection)
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification by Thomas J. Elpel
Call Number: QK110 .E46 2004 (Ocean Collection)
Alteration of Native Hawaiian Vegetation: Effects of Humans, their Activities and Introductions by Linda W. Pratt
Call Number: QK473 .H4 C83 1990 (Hawaii Pacific)
Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaiʻi by Warren L. Wagner, Derral R. Herbst, S.H. Sohmer
Call Number: QK473 .H4 W33 1990
(Hawaii Pacific Reference)
The New Oxford Book of Food Plants by J.G. Vaughan and C. A. Geissler
Call Number: SB175 .V38 2009 (Ocean Collection)
The Biology of Horticulture: An Introductory Textbook by John E. Preece and Paul E. Read
Call Number: SB318 .P74 2005 (Ocean Collection)
Plants for Tropical Landscapes by Fred D. Rauch; Paul R. Weissich
Call Number: SB407 .R37 2000 (Hawaii Pacific)
Breeding Dendrobium Orchids in Hawaii by Haruyuki Kamemoto
Call Number: SB409.8.D45 K36 1999 (Hawaii Pacific)
Breeding Anthuriums in Hawaii by Haruyuki Kamemoto; Adelheid R. Kuehnle
Call Number: SB413.A64 K35 1996 (Hawaii Pacific)
The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why by Erik Millstone and Tim Lang
Call Number: TX353 .M55 2008
(Ocean Collection)

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