Medicinal Plants Coloring Book

By Ilil Arbel

Book Overview

For centuries plants have been used to assuage or cure a wide variety of human ills. Even such familiar "weeds" as the dandelion have their palliative uses. This informative coloring book, featuring 44 accurate drawings by botanical illustrator Ilil Arbel, focuses on such medicinal plants from around the world as foxglove, belladonna, mayapple, valerian, dandelion, chamomile, quinine, arnica, burdock, tamarind, lobelia, and many more.
Each illustration is accompanied by an informative caption outlining the plant's coloration and physical characteristics, geographic distribution, and medicinal uses. Invaluable as an identification guide and pictorial reference, this volume will appeal to colorists of all ages as well as to artists and crafters in need of royalty-free plant illustrations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486274624
• ISBN13: 9780486274621
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9

Customer Reviews

I was looking forward to actually coloring in this book myself and hanging some of the botanical pag

Im giving this a 1 star rating because it was stated as a very good condition but yet half of the book was scribbled in. If I would have known that I would not have purchased it