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5 books about Madeira tagged “botany”.
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.
The first comprehensive flora to describe all vascular plants of the Madeiran and Salvage Islands — over 1,360 species — with descriptions, identification keys, habitat and distribution data and 57 illustrated plates.
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Richard Thomas Lowe, describing the plants of Madeira together with Porto Santo and the Desertas — a foundational historical reference.
The first comprehensive pictorial flora of Madeira — over 1,200 ferns and flowering plants in 1,450+ colour photographs, including almost all ~160 endemic taxa, with habitat and distribution. A 789-page botanical reference (German text).
A multilingual photographic reference documenting the roughly 165 endemic vascular plant taxa exclusive to the Madeira archipelago and the Selvagens Islands.