Fabulous reads: Allow your Cape knowledge to bloom

Quick ID Guide: Wild Flowers of the Cape Peninsula, Hugh Clarke and Corinne Merry, Penguin Random House, ISBN: 9781775846406

WRITTEN with the non-specialist in mind, this is a must-have guide for flower lovers, hikers, tour guides and tourists as it will help identify the most commonly seen wild flowers of the Cape Peninsula.

Originally published as Common Wild Flowers of Table Mountain, then revised to include the flowers of Silvermine, this new expanded edition includes 360 (previously 208) wild flowers, arranged by flower colour for quick and easy ID, hiking routes on Table Mountain, Silvermine and Cape Point and clear photographs of each flower and concise, informative text.

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Hugh Clarke and Corinne Merry are keen hikers with a passion for the outdoors. Hugh’s love of botany has flourished during his retirement, and he has published several books on plants. Corinne is an enthusiastic amateur botanist.

She walks on the Peninsula most days, taking exquisite photographs of the flowers she finds there. Most of the photographs in the book are hers.

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