Book on wild flowers relaunched
Elsa Pooley has authored a number of books on plants.
THE Flora and Fauna Publications Trust has announced the 3rd Impression of A Field Guide to Wild Flowers of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Region by Elsa Pooley is now available.
This field guide has been out of print for nearly three years.
It has been a best seller since its release in 1998, providing a fully illustrated guide to over 2000 species of indigenous flowering plants in much of the eastern summer rainfall region.
The book is for wildlife enthusiasts, indigenous gardeners, tour guides, students from school to universities, researchers and environmental practitioners.
It is a user-friendly field guide and an outstanding reference work with 632 pages, over 2000 species and 2450 photographs.
The book includes colour coding, ecological and gardening notes, common names in English, Afrikaans, South Sotho, Swazi, Thonga, Xhosa and Zulu and maps which cover a large part of the summer rainfall region from East London to the southern Mozambique border, inland to eastern Free State, Gauteng, Northern Province and Mpumalanga including Lesotho and Swaziland.
Elsa Pooley has authored a number of books on plants including Mountain Flowers, a Field Guide to the flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho (2003), Trees of Natal, Zululand & Transkei (1993) now fully revised by Richard Boon and republished by the Trust as Pooley’s Trees of Eastern South Africa (2010).
She is a practical botanist with 30 years wide ranging experience in the field.
She has undertaken research for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Natal Parks Board, Human Sciences Research Council and Natal University, including pioneering work on the use of plants by the people of Maputaland. She had worked closely with the National Botanical Institute, in particular, the Natal Herbarium in the preparation of the Trust’s books. A skilled botanical artist whose work has been published and widely exhibited, she has also established five public indigenous gardens and a wild flower nursery. Voted the Natal Wildlife and Environment Society’s 1996 ‘Conservationist of the Year’, her knowledge and versatility bridges the divide between the popular and the academic.
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The Flora and Fauna Publications Trust was established in 1992 to raise sponsorship for the publication of popular, authoritative, affordable books on the indigenous plants of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Region, with the object of stimulating greater care and understanding of the exceptionally rich environment in these areas. In 2008 the trust was renamed The Flora and Fauna Publications Trust to better reflect the unique flora and the fauna so integral to it.
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