Plantas de Patagonia/Plants of Patagonia

04/03/2009 - Article

An art book illustrating the botanical wealth of the world's southernmost region.

The bilingual book (Spanish-English) Plantas de Patagonia gives a comprehensive, attractive picture of the flora of Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia. It describes 95 plant families representative of the zone, comprising 400 species. It has 500 colour photographs and 80 illustrations, and is intended for a wide readership.
Plantas de Patagonia is the result of more than fifteen years' collaboration through a series of research projects headed by Daniel Barthélémy at the Universidad nacional del Comahue's Centro regional universitario bariloche in southern Argentina.

Plantas de la Patagonia / Plants of Patagonia
Daniel Barthélémy, Cecilia Brion, Javier Puntieri
Publ. Vasquez Mazzini
2008