The palmetto book : histories and mysteries of the cabbage palm / / Jono Miller |
Autore | Miller Jono |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 584.84 |
Soggetto topico |
Cabbage palmetto
Plant ecology |
ISBN | 0-8130-6582-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I : Quest for the ages: How long can these things live? -- Are cabbage palms trees? wood? grass? -- Bootjacks: fronds, how they work (and fail) -- Hunting Island: the curious recurved seedling -- One plant, many names -- Part II : Anomalies: oddball palms get noticed (and collected) -- Diseases stalk the cabbage palm -- Groves: the strange relationship with citrus -- Cabbage palms in the landscape -- Picayune: natural Florida threatened by native palms -- Panther-killing palms: disturbance alters the food chain -- Birds and bees: wildlife in the palms -- Coastal creep: natural distribution, east coast -- Coastal creep: natural distribution, gulf coast -- Last tree standing: rising sea level on Florida's Big Bend coast -- Part III : Hearts of palm: the tree you can eat -- Palm entrepreneurs: money growing on trees -- Seminole thatch: chickees and tikis -- Sweetgrass baskets: Gullah/Geechee South Carolinians create value from African skills -- Palm abodes: a different approach to log cabins -- Cheesecake: the most-photographed cabbage palm -- Fine artists contemplate the cabbage palm -- Toby Kwimper: a cinematic experiment in ecological succession -- Elegance doesn't come easy: the South Carolina state flag -- Coda -- Lost in space: what the aliens will learn about us. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794580703321 |
Miller Jono | ||
Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The palmetto book : histories and mysteries of the cabbage palm / / Jono Miller |
Autore | Miller Jono |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 584.84 |
Soggetto topico |
Cabbage palmetto
Plant ecology |
ISBN | 0-8130-6582-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part I : Quest for the ages: How long can these things live? -- Are cabbage palms trees? wood? grass? -- Bootjacks: fronds, how they work (and fail) -- Hunting Island: the curious recurved seedling -- One plant, many names -- Part II : Anomalies: oddball palms get noticed (and collected) -- Diseases stalk the cabbage palm -- Groves: the strange relationship with citrus -- Cabbage palms in the landscape -- Picayune: natural Florida threatened by native palms -- Panther-killing palms: disturbance alters the food chain -- Birds and bees: wildlife in the palms -- Coastal creep: natural distribution, east coast -- Coastal creep: natural distribution, gulf coast -- Last tree standing: rising sea level on Florida's Big Bend coast -- Part III : Hearts of palm: the tree you can eat -- Palm entrepreneurs: money growing on trees -- Seminole thatch: chickees and tikis -- Sweetgrass baskets: Gullah/Geechee South Carolinians create value from African skills -- Palm abodes: a different approach to log cabins -- Cheesecake: the most-photographed cabbage palm -- Fine artists contemplate the cabbage palm -- Toby Kwimper: a cinematic experiment in ecological succession -- Elegance doesn't come easy: the South Carolina state flag -- Coda -- Lost in space: what the aliens will learn about us. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813179603321 |
Miller Jono | ||
Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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