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The flowers, the laurisilva forest and the gardens of the island of eternal spring.
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Flora & Gardens
With selection notes
English · 2006 edition
A colour-illustrated botanical pocket guide describing 166 typical plants of Madeira, organised by habitat — gardens and parks, the coast, cultivated land and levadas, the laurisilva forest and the mountains.
Flora & Gardens
With selection notes
English · 2016 edition
Pelagic’s 2016 reprint of the 1994 flora covers more than 1,360 vascular plant species of Madeira and the Salvage Islands, with identification keys, habitat and distribution information and 57 plates of botanical drawings.
Flora & Gardens
With selection notes
German · 2022 edition
A German-language field guide to more than 200 Madeiran plants across every vegetation zone, with botanical garden profiles, short walks, maps and downloadable GPS locations.
Flora & Gardens
With selection notes
German · 2020 edition
A German-language illustrated identification reference to Madeira’s ferns and flowering plants by Thomas Muer, Herbert Sauerbier and Francisco Cabrera Calixto. The German National Library records 792 pages for this 2020 Kleinsteuber Books edition.
Flora & Gardens
English · 2020 edition
A reprint of the classic 19th-century botanical flora by naturalist Richard Thomas Lowe, describing the plants of Madeira together with Porto Santo and the Desertas — a foundational historical reference.
Flora & Gardens
Multilingual · 1997 edition
A richly illustrated photographic field guide to around 400 wild and cultivated plants of Madeira — one species per page with flowering season, height, origin, family and altitude. A long-running island favourite with multilingual text.
Flora & Gardens
English · 2008 edition
An accessible photographic guide to the flowers of Madeira by botanist Roberto Jardim of the island’s Botanical Garden — a popular introduction to Madeiran flowers and the island’s distinctive flowering plants.
Flora & Gardens
English · 2024 edition
A classic Edwardian botanical travelogue, first published in 1909, exploring the gardens, flowers and floral landscapes of Madeira, illustrated with watercolours by Ella Du Cane. Available in modern reprint.
Flora & Gardens
English · 2010 edition
An authoritative illustrated survey of around 30 gardens across Madeira by garden designer Gerald Luckhurst, tracing the island’s garden history and the role of Portuguese aristocrats and British wine merchants in creating its quintas.
2019 reprint cover Flora & Gardens
English · original edition 1909
The genteel 1909 garden memoir that inspired Tony Powell’s modern homage — Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford’s observations of Madeira’s flora, climate and society from the vantage of his garden.
Flora & Gardens
English · 2000 edition
A multilingual photographic reference documenting the roughly 165 endemic vascular plant taxa exclusive to the Madeira archipelago and the Selvagens Islands.
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