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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Sturt Pea - A Most Splendid PlantThe book provides an in-depth botanical study of the Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa), a distinctive Australian plant famous for its striking blood-red petals and black central bosses. It serves as the floral emblem of South Australia. It also delves into the cultural significance and mythology of the flower.

Quarto, paperback,152 pp.,colour photographs. Sturt pea is one of the world's most striking and spectacular flowering plants. This richly illustrated book, full of interest for the general reader, covering the discovery of the Sturt pea by William Dampier and subsequent explorers and explorer-botanists like Charles Sturt and Allan Cunningham and its complex history of names in science and the common parlance; its wide variety of colour forms, its cultivation which has been a difficult experience adding to the mystique of the plant, and progress to gaining a hold in the cutflower trade; and its place in Aboriginal culture (amazingly seemingly limited), in our popular and institutional culture (all sorts of ephemera, our SA State Coat of Arms, ethnic group banners), and in our art, prose and poetry.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Adelaide, Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, 2007. Quarto; colour pictorial papered boards; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly rubbed, creased and torn. With numerous colour illustrations.

Quarto, dustwrapper,152 pp.,colour photographs. Sturt pea is one of the world's most striking and spectacular flowering plants. This richly illustrated book, full of interest for the general reader, covering: - the discovery of the Sturt pea by William Dampier and subsequent explorers and explorer-botanists like Charles Sturt and Allan Cunningham and its complex history of names in science and the common parlance; - its wide variety of colour forms, its cultivation which has been a difficult experience adding to the mystique of the plant, and progress to gaining a hold in the cutflower trade; - and its place in Aboriginal culture (amazingly seemingly limited), in our popular and institutional culture (all sorts of ephemera, our SA State Coat of Arms, ethnic group banners), and in our art, prose and poetry. Also available in paperback [stock id 26085].