One might wonder, “Why a field guide to Seeds of Amazonian Plants?”

Some Amazonian and Bornean forests support more than 300 species of trees per hectare among approximately 600 trunks. Conventional wisdom used to be that it was impossible to identify these trees in the field, but current researchers and travelers regularly identify trees in the field using leaves, bark, and seeds.

The pictures below are but a small sampling of the beautiful, varied and complex seeds one might encounter in the Amazon and other lowland moist forests of the American tropics. Fernando Cornejo and John Janovec photograph and provide identification tips for 544 genera and 131 families of Amazonian plants. This book is an absolutely essential resource for anyone conducting research in the Amazon, but it is also gorgeous to peruse.





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  1. Seems like a cool book with beautiful photo’s of the seeds and leaves. I live in Surinam and I know many plants by common name. Would be nice if the book also has common names.
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    Alexander
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