10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREAT MOUNTAIN BUTTERCUP»
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1
Mountain flowers of New Zealand
Ranunculus insignis The largest of these is the wonderful Ranunculus lyallii, the
great mountain buttercup. This beautiful plant has glossy, saucer-shaped leaves
up to a foot in diameter that appear in spring from an underground bud. In early ...
Nancy M. Adams, Nancy Mitchell Adams, 1965
2
The Penguin natural world of New Zealand
... 73, 74, 128, 167, 207, 278, 284,315 Great Island, 272 great mountain buttercup
, 26, 27 great spotted kiwi, 14, 188, 190, 190, 191 great white shark, 309-10
grebes, 62, 145, 145 green cushion daisy, 93 green rock crayfish, 89-90
greenstone, ...
3
The concise natural history of New Zealand
The Great Mountain Buttercup, Ranunculus lyallii, is probably the most famous of
the herbs, though it is now much less often seen than it used to be because of the
depredations of deer. Its natural range is in the high rainfall areas of the South ...
4
Pick of the bunch: New Zealand wildflowers
Nobody seems to be pedantic for long enough to call it by its alternative name "
great mountain buttercup". Big beautiful buttercup it certainly is, and well worth
careful timing of a trip (November, December especially) to coincide with the ...
5
Moa's Ark: The Voyage of New Zealand
See Great mountain buttercup Mount Kaukau, 167 Mount Tarawera, 22 Mount
Tasman, 117 Mountain beech, 80 Mountain daisy (Celmisia verbascifolia), 112
Mountain willowherb (Epilobium crassum), 112 Mustelids, 174,775 Muttonbird, ...
David J. Bellamy, Brian Springett, Peter Hayden, 1990
6
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic birds
Turpentine Scrub Dracophyllum longifotium, Taramea Aciphylla scott'thomsonii,
mountain daisies Celmisia, Great Mountain Buttercup Ranunculus lyallii and
alpine cushion plants (J.M. Peter). DISTRIBUTION AND POPULATION
Widespread ...
S. Marchant, Peter Jeffrey Higgins, S. J. Ambrose, 1990
However, Ranunculus lyallii is too firmly established as the "mountain lily" of "Mt
Cook lily" to permit the obviously coined "great mountain buttercup" being
substituted as a common name. All too often the text of books such as this
appears to ...
Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, 1973
The largest of all buttercups and the pride of the country's alpine flora, the great
mountain buttercup frequently forms large patches in South Island meadows. Its
tall sprays of pure white, waxy flowers, two inches across, rise above glossy, ...
Oswald Ziegler Publications, 1967
9
The world book encyclopedia of science
The great mountain buttercup (Ranunculus lyalli, below left) from Mount Cook
and other alpine regions in New Zealand has large showy flowers to attract
insects. The llareta (Azorella glabra, below right) lives at high altitudes in the
Andes and ...
Maureen Mostyn Liebenson, 2000
10
The Living Forests of New Zealand
Numerous waterfalls polish the valley walls covered by a dense mantle of forest.
Forest stretches to white sand beaches and the sea along the coastline of South
Westland. Alpine Plants Ranunculus lyalli, the great mountain buttercup, ...
