An essential handbook for aroid researchers, collectors, botanists, and growers, updated and expanded in this third edition.

This third edition of the best-selling book by Deni Bown is fully updated and revised and includes new taxa and advances in research to ensure that Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family continues to be the go-to book for aroid enthusiasts. 

Since the first edition of Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family was published in 1988, many new genera and over one thousand additional species have been discovered by botanists globally. This expansion of knowledge, made possible through the application of technological advances, has stimulated further interest in the plant family both within the scientific community and in the general public. One of the most famous aroids, the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), known for its gigantic size and stench of rotting flesh at the blooming stage, has become a botanical superstar! This edition also includes an expanded and illustrated section on aroids in cultivation.

Deni Bown is the author of the first two editions of Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family, published in 1988 and 2000. She has written and illustrated several other books, including Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses. Bown has won several awards for her work in photography and writing, including the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the Garden Writer’s Association of America Award. She is past honorary president of the Herb Society of America, has served several times as board member of the International Aroid Society, and is vice president of the European Herb Society.