Poisonous Plants of California

Thomas C. Fuller

University of California Press, 1986 - Nature - 433 pages

00 This highly informative volume describes California's native, naturalized, and cultivated plant species which can be poisonous and describes how to recognize them, where they are found, and what symptoms they produce. This highly informative volume describes California's native, naturalized, and cultivated plant species which can be poisonous and describes how to recognize them, where they are found, and what symptoms they produce.

What people are saying

User Review -

Excellent reference. Wouldn't run my ranch without it.

Contents

• Fungi: 15
• Ferns and Horsetails: 56
• Plant Toxins and Derivative Drugs: 305
• Plants Causing Dermatitis: 369
• Plants Accumulating Nitrates: 384

About the author

Thomas C. Fuller, now a Research Associate in Botany at the California Academy of Sciences, was for several decades a Plant Taxonomist for the California Department of Food and Agriculture; his work included assisting veterinarians with suspected plant poisonings throughout the state. Elizabeth McClintock is a Research Associate in the Department of Botany at the University of California, Berkeley. As a professional botanist working with California plants, she specialized in ornamentals growing in gardens, parks, and other comparable areas.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Poisonous Plants of California; Issue 53 of California Natural History Guides : 53
• Author: Thomas C. Fuller
• Contributor: Elizabeth May McClintock
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of California Press, 1986
• ISBN: 0520055691, 9780520055698
• Length: 433 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Plants / General; Science / Life Sciences / Botany