Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family (Third Edition) - Available for pre-order
This fully updated and revised third edition of Aroids is the essential handbook for aroid enthusiasts, collectors, botanists and researchers.
Available for pre-order now
Shipping early February.
Author: Deni Bown, 496 pages, 450 photographs, 246 x 189 mm. Hardback, ISBN 9781842468128, Kew Publishing, 2025.
This third edition of the best-selling book by Deni Bown is fully updated and revised. With new taxa and updates to research included, Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family continues to be the go-to book on this plant group. Since the first edition was published in 1988, many new genera and over 1,000 additional species have been described by botanists globally. This expansion of knowledge, made possible through the application of technological advances, has stimulated further interest in the plant family both within the scientific community and in the general public. One of the most famous aroids, the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), known for its gigantic size and stench of rotting flesh at blooming stage, has become a botanical superstar!
Fully illustrated throughout with stunning photography, colour illustrations and line drawings, this new edition is the essential handbook for aroid enthusiasts, growers, botanists and researchers.
Author Information
Deni Bown is the author of the first two editions of Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family, published in 1988 and 2000. Her other books include The Royal Horticultural Society/Herb Society of America Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses (Dorling Kinderley, 1995, 2002) which was translated into many languages, and Alba – the Book of White Flowers (Unwin Hyman, 1989), winner of a Garden Writer’s Association of America award. She is past Honorary President of the Herb Society of America, has served as board member of the International Aroid Society and committee member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and is Vice President of the European Herb Society.
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