GUIDE TO THE ALOES OF SOUTH AFRICA

376pp., colour illus., hardback, Third Edition Reprint, Briza Publications, (1996) 2025

ISBN: 9781920217389

This updated and expanded third edition is a full-colour guide that makes identifying aloes easy for both laypeople and scientists in field and garden settings.

Includes detailed descriptions of all 153 currently recognised South African aloe species, with distinguishing features, flowering periods, habitat and distribution, distribution maps, conservation status, origins of scientific and common names, cultivation notes, pests, diseases, modern hybrids and cultivars, and traditional and medicinal uses.

Also available in Afrikaans.

Ben-Erik van Wyk is Professor of Botany at the University of Johannesburg. He is co-author of Photo Guide to Trees of Southern Africa (with Piet van Wyk and Braam van Wyk), People's Plants (with N. Gericke) and Medicinal Plants of South Africa (with B. van Oudtshoorn and N. Gericke).