Books to aid plant ID in the wild

[Bluetongue]

Please feel free to add your favourite reference books...

For Melbourne/Victoria:

* Flora of Melbourne: a guide to the indigenous plants of the greater Melbourne area, by the Australian Plants Society, Maroondah. Published by Hyland House.

* Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia, by Leon Costermans. Published by Reed New Holland.

[mulga]

Rainforest Trees and Shrubs - A field guide to their identification (2006)
Gwen Harden, Bill McDonald, John Williams
www.rainforests.net.au

Names says it all really.
Native temperate and subtropical rainforest trees and shrubs from E Vic to central Qld

also

Field guide to Native Plants of Sydney Region, Les Robinson for E NSW area is a classic.

[Nessie]

Geez I could be here forever listing books!

Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney by Les Robinson is my bible! I've got a copy in the car, one in the office and a spare for when the car copy gets wrecked! In the Arboriculture industry in Sydney we refer to it simply as "Robinson". I just whish I could get it electronically for my PDA!

Other books I keep handy (they're all plastic covered so they can go camping):

Australian Trees - Key Guide by Leon Cronin
Melaleucas - A field and Garden Guide by Ivan Holliday
Gardener's Compantion to Eucalypts by Ivan Holliday & Geoffrey Watton
Grassland Plants of SE Australia by Neil & Jane Marriott
Wildflowers of Sydney by Alan Fairley
Field Guide to Australian Wildflowers by Denise Greig
Native Plans by Wrigley & Fagg
Native Plants of the Sydney District by Alan Fairley and Philip Moore

Geez, I'm going to have to send my insurace company a list of books. If the house ever burns down I'm up for quite a bit of money to replace my books...

[Bluetongue]

Just letting you know that Barwon Booksellers (link below) in Geelong, Victoria, has some second-hand bushfood books in stock at the moment. I recall seeing Tim Low and the Cribb books, but no Juleigh Robins, sorry.

http://barwonbooksellers.com.au/Default.aspx

Don't believe the search results on the Book Search page. Best to ring them.

[mattmightsay]

i have ..

wild food plants of australia - tim low
Bush tucker feild guide - les hiddins
SAS survival hand book john lofty wiseman (has some plants in the book)
Tracks, Scats & Other Traces a feild guide to australian mammals - barbara triggs (wild animals tracking)
AUSTRALIAN RECIPE BOOK 'WILD FOOD' by JULEIGH ROBINS

thats all i got for now.

[Thomas B]

Les Robinson: Field Guide to Plants of Sydney
William and Wendy Cooper: Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest