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5 books about Madeira tagged “flora”.
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.
An accessible photographic guide to the flowers of Madeira by botanist Roberto Jardim of the island’s Botanical Garden — a popular introduction to Madeira’s distinctive flowering plants.
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 classic Victorian guide and personal account of touring Madeira — how to see the island, letters from a year’s residence, and lists of its trees, flowers, ferns and seaweeds. Available as a facsimile reprint.
A multilingual photographic reference documenting the roughly 165 endemic vascular plant taxa exclusive to the Madeira archipelago and the Selvagens Islands.