field guide to wild flowers of Kwa-Zulu Natal and the Easter Region

Offers the most comprehensive full colour guide too South African wild flowers produced on the sub-continent. It is both a standard reference work and a user-friendly field guide. It establishes a new standard with 2450 colour photographs, over 2000 species, distribution maps, drawings, common names in seven local languages, colour coding and a key to the families (632 pages). The maps cover a large part of the summer rainfall region from East London in the Eastern Cape to southern Mozambique, inland to eastern Free State, Gauteng, Northern Province and Mpumalanga including Lesotho and Swaziland.

Dr. Elsa Pooley (DSc honoris causa) (UKZN) is a skilled botanical artist and practical botanist with more than 40 years’ experience in the field. Elsa lives on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, near the village of Clansthal. Originally based in the game reserves of Zululand, her research has included pioneering work on the traditional uses of plants by the people of Maputaland. Her botanical tours take local and international visitors to explore the flora of the eastern region of South Africa, particularly the Drakensberg and Lesotho alpine region. Elsa's knowledge and versatility bridges the divide between the popular and the academic. She has worked closely with the National Botanical Institute, in particular the Natal Herbarium in preparation of the Flora Publications Trust books.