Plant Life of the Pacific - Hardcover

This Asian ecology book offers an overview of the plant life of the vast Pacific region.

Among the topics covered are the tropical forest and jungles, the grasslands, the primary and secondary forest, and the plants of the seashores. Weeds and cultivated plants are also discussed with overviews of plant distribution and notes on specific islands and island groups.

Plant Life of the Pacific World will fill a great need as an important reference source not only for the ethnobotanist but for the professional botanist and the student interested in the flora of the Pacific basin. The information it containsadequately detailed and clearly presentedshould also open the eyes of both visitors and inhabitants to the natural riches of the Pacific region.