Shop Our Categories Missouri Botanical Garden Press Search site About the Press Our Mission Contact Us Publication Submission Instructions New Titles Books Monographs in Systematic Botany Flora Series Flora of Missouri Flora Mesoamericana A Flora of the Liverworts and Hornworts of New Zealand Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of Central America Flora of China Moss Flora of China Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana Flora of North America Flora of Pakistan Botany by Region Africa Eurasia North America Central America South America About the Missouri Botanical Garden Field Guides Botanical History and Biographies Educational Titles Ethnobotany Ecology and Environmental Science Bryophytes Icones Orchid Taxonomy Icones Pleurothallidinarum Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Series II Journals About Our Journals Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden NOVON, A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature Botanical Prints & Notecards Rare Book Reproduction Prints Notecards Orchid Prints Bateman's Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala Orchid Folios News from the Press Submit Search Nav Menu 2 Nav Menu 3 Nav Menu 4 Nav Menu 5 Nav Menu 6 Nav Menu 7 Nav Menu 8 Home > Books > Flora of China, Volume 7: Menispermaceae through Capparaceae Our Price: $100.00 ISBN: 9781930723818 Qty: Description Author(s)/Illustrator(s) Eleven plant families are described in this volume. Among these, the Capparaceae include the caper (Capparis spinosa); the Lauraceae include the main source of camphor (Cinnamomum camphora), the spices cassia (C. cassia) and cinnamon (C. verum), and the cultivated bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); the Magnoliaceae include the Asian tulip tree (Liriodendron chinense), found only in China and Vietnam, and some 110 species of magnolias that are treated either in 12 separate genera or all in Magnolia; the Myristicaceae include the source of nutmeg and mace (Myristica fragrans); and the Papaveraceae include the horticulturally important poppies, Meconopsis and Papaver, as well as the very diverse genus Corydalis, which has 357 species in China. Authors: Flora of China Editorial Committee Publication Information Publisher: MBG Press and Science Press, BeijingPublication Date: 2008ISBN: 9781930723818Format: HardcoverPages: 511Illustrated: No Related Items Index of Mosses, 1996-1998 Global Patterns of Plant Diversity: Alwyn H. Gentry Forest Transect Data Set Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica, Volumen VI: Dicotiledoneas (Haloragaceae–Phytolaccaceae) Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers, 1994-1995 Our Price: $10.00 Our Price: $15.00 Our Price: $100.00 Our Price: $5.00 Moss Flora of Central America, Part 2: Encalyptaceae–Orthotrichaceae Sedges: Uses, Diversity, and Systematics of the Cyperaceae Cassini on Compositae II Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVI: Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and three allied subgenera; A Second Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador; Epibator, Ophidion, Zootrophion Our Price: $75.00 Our Price: $35.00 Our Price: $5.00 Our Price: $64.00