| Medicinal Plants Coloring Book Contributor(s): Arbel, Ilil (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486274624 ISBN-13: 9780486274621 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $5.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1993 Annotation: Informative fun-to-color guide features 44 botanically accurate drawings of such plants as foxglove, belladonna, mayapple, valerian, dandelion, chamomile, quinine, arnica, burdock, tamarind, lobelia, and many more. Captions describe plant's coloration and physical characteristics, geographic distribution, and medicinal uses. Invaluable identification guide; also source of royalty-free plant illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Crafts & Hobbies | Papercrafts - Nature |
| Dewey: 581 |
| Series: Dover Nature Coloring Book |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 6.48" W x 10.22" (0.39 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For centuries plants have been used to assuage or cure a wide variety of human ills. Even such familiar "weeds" as the dandelion have their palliative uses. This informative coloring book, featuring 44 accurate drawings by botanical illustrator Ilil Arbel, focuses on such medicinal plants from around the world as foxglove, belladonna, mayapple, valerian, dandelion, chamomile, quinine, arnica, burdock, tamarind, lobelia, and many more. Each illustration is accompanied by an informative caption outlining the plant's coloration and physical characteristics, geographic distribution, and medicinal uses. Invaluable as an identification guide and pictorial reference, this volume will appeal to colorists of all ages as well as to artists and crafters in need of royalty-free plant illustrations. |