Susanne Lipps - Madeira

Oliver Breda Edition

A Botanical Pocket Guide with 166 Descriptions of Selected and Typical Plants on Madeira and the most Beautiful Gardens

A Botanical Pocket Guide with 166 Descriptions of Selected and Typical Plants on Madeira and the most Beautiful Gardens

A Botanical Melting Pot!

A Botanical Melting Pot!

Madeira

Madeira

Flora at the Roadside:

Flowers, Herbs, Trees,

Crops and Fruits

Flora at the Roadside:

Flowers, Herbs, Trees,

Crops and Fruits

Madeira - A Botanical Melting Pot!

Madeira definitely deserves its cognomen “Flower Island”. You will find plants from all regions of the earth growing in a very confined space. Wherever you go you will be surrounded by numerous familiar and unfamiliar plants. The botanical guide “Madeira - A Botanical Melting Pot!” contains plant descriptions that are organized in six typical groups: plants in gardens and parks, vegetation in coastal areas, flora of cultivated land and along the levadas, vegetation of the laurisilva forest, flora of the mountains and typical useful plants - altogether descriptions of 166 species, accompanied by colour photographs. You get to know interesting pieces of information that are directly or indirectly linked with the plant in question. Moreover there are enumerated these sites on Madeira where you may surely find them. The last chapter is dedicated to the island’s most beautiful gardens and parks; there you find information about the history of each garden, a detailed description and supplementary facts about opening hours, prices and how to get there by bus or by rented car.

Oliver Breda Edition

ISBN 978-3-938282-10-6

Madeira

A Botanical

Melting Pot!

Oliver Breda Edition

Susanne Lipps

Madeira

A Botanical Melting Pot!

Oliver Breda Edition

Oliver Breda Edition

Oliver Breda Edition

The Author

Dr. Susanne Lipps is successful author of a number of travel and walk-ing guides about Madeira, the Canary Islands, Spain and Portugal. After having studied Geography, Geology and Botany in Marburg (Germany), she graduated in 1985. Since 1988 she works as tour guide and freelance author and travels regularly to the island of Madeira.

All items in this book have been carefully enquired and checked to the best of our knowledge. The use of this book is at one’s owne risk. Author and publisher will not assume any liability for possible damages or prejudices of any kind.

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