Tasmanian plant names unravelled.

Launceston: Fullers Bookshop, 2010.
Octavo, paperback, 472 pp. colour photographs.

A comprehensive species by species guide to the origin and meaning of the scientific and common names of the 2,750 vascular plants native and naturalised in Tasmania. It is also a useful guide for other parts of south eastern Australia. Lavishly illustrated, this book will appeal to Tasmanian botanists, naturalists and gardeners. It will be equally useful in southeastern mainland state, which share much of the Tasmanian flora.
Features:
* More images of Tasmanian flora than any previous publication with nearly 900 high quality photographs.
* Extensively researched with reference to the original plant descriptions, clarifying some long-held etymological errors.
* Covers not only 1,950 Tasmanian natives, including 500 endemics, but also some 800 introduced species that have escaped from gardens and agriculture.
* Common names, including multiple names, are given for each species, together with interesting tales of their origins, past or present uses for food, medicine and even witchcraft.
* All scientific names are dissected and explained, with their pronunciation given.
* Biographies of famous botanists, collectors and explorers, whose names have been honoured in plant names.