AUSTRALIAN POULTRY FORUM™

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Australia's Poisonous Plants, Fungi and Cyanobacteria A Guide to Species of Medical and Veterinary Importance
http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6507.htm

Australia's Poisonous Plants, Fungi and Cyanobacteria is the first full-colour, comprehensive guide to the major natural threats to health in Australia affecting domestic and native animals and humans. The overriding aim of the book is to prevent poisoning, as there are few effective treatments available, particularly in domestic animals.
The species have been chosen because of their capacity to threaten life or damage important organs, their relative abundance or wide distribution in native and naturalised Australian flora, or because of their extensive cultivation as crops, pastures or in gardens. These include flowering plants, ferns and cone-bearing plants, macrofungi, ergot fungi and cyanobacteria.

The plant species are grouped by life form such as herbs, grasses and sedges, shrubs, trees, and for flowering plants by flower type and colour for ease of identification. Species described have colour photographs, distribution maps and notes on confusing species, habitats, toxins, animals affected, conditions of poisoning, clinical signs and symptoms, post mortem changes, therapy, prevention and control. Symbols are used for quick reference to poisoning duration and available ways of managing poisoning. As further aids to understanding, poisoning hot-spots are highlighted and the book lists plants under the headings of animals affected and organs affected. A Digest gives brief details for all poisonous species in Australia.

This book is written in a straightforward style making it accessible to a wide audience including farmers, veterinarians, agricultural advisors, gardeners, horticulturists, botanists and park rangers, medical practitioners and paramedics, teachers, parents and pet owners.

About the author
Preface: why this book?
Acknowledgements
Warnings
Using this book
1 Understanding plants and plant poisoning
2 How to confirm tentative identifications
3 Common poisoning profiles
Part 1 Poisonous cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
4 Poisonous cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
Part 2 Poisonous fungi
5 Poisonous fungi
Part 3 Poisonous vascular plants
6 Poisonous ferns
7 Poisonous cycads
8 Poisonous grasses, sedges and mat-rushes
9 Poisonous grass-trees
10 Poisonous grass-like herbs (iris and lily families)
11 Poisonous forbs (non-grass-like herbs)
12 Poisonous vines (climbing plants and creepers)
13 Poisonous shrubs
14 Poisonous trees
15 Digest of poisonous cyanobacteria, algae, slime moulds, macrofungi and plants in Australia
APPENDIX 1: Aids to identifying flowering plants
APPENDIX 2: The top killers
APPENDIX 3: Poisoning hot-spots
APPENDIX 4: Animals and the major species that poison them
APPENDIX 5: Body systems affected by the major poisonous species
APPENDIX 6: Australian states with major poisonous species
Glossary
References and further reading
Index

http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6507.htm

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LooLoo

for posting this LooLoo, it sounds like an invaluable reference book for all to have

I think so its 976 pages and only $195 so good value



LooLoo

I went an order a copy excellent and thanks

Loo Loo = you are a LEGEND

Loo Loo = you are a LEGEND

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - NO IDEA how the double post happened



will leave it anyway

Thanks Sue

I ordered mine yesterday I hope it comes next week



LooLoo

Me too I have to look up a funny weed that has turned up here not seen it before

Booktopia have it for $176.50, even better!