The work that you have in your hand shows, with suggestive titles, spectacular images accompanied by a brief text that, in an oddly original way, provides some data about what appears in each photograph.

Considering the number of species photographed, as well as their diversity, shapes and colours represented, we seem to be in front of a small treatise on botany, where we can see mosses, fungi, ferns, higher plants (the most numerous) and even some of the insects related to the plant world.

As the species included in this collection are the most popular and abundant in our country, the treatise will be very interesting for all those people who love nature, and they will find the photographed specimens in the fields closest to their homes.

The text points out the important features or curiosities of some plants, the popular beliefs of others, the places where it is common to find them because it is their habitat or the function exerted on nature. It also suggests ways to make the most of them, making reference to the similarity with the common objects of everyday life and emphasizing the characteristics for which they must be admired.

Being an essentially photographic work, just as it was done, it must be valued the botanical content included.

If in the plant guides descriptions must be accompanied by an illustration that shows clearly the parts and details of each species, these photographs perfectly fulfil that role.

(Foreword to the book by Henrique Niño Ricoi)

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