Book ID: 84612
Burrows, John and Sandra Burrows
Figs of Southern and South - Central Africa. 2003. 501 col. photographs. 90 full - page line - drawings, plus VIII, 378 p. Large 4to. Hardcover.
Treats 48 native figs (Ficus) of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana,Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Includes alsocommonly cultivated figs used for economic or horticultural purposes.Three additional chapters by other authors on the role of figs in thelives of birds, animals and insects; interrelatinship of wasps withfigs, and cultivation of figs. Distribution maps for each native fig,plus key to native species.