Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Bizarre Botany: An A-Z Adventure Through the Plant Kingdom
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- Christina Harrison
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- Hardcover
- 9781842466148
- 8 X 5.2 X 0.9 inches
- 0.84 pounds
- Gardening > General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
The world of plants is endlessly fascinating and full of surprises, even for an experienced horticulturalist or gardener. This book celebrates that bounty through a tour of its stranger precincts, a beautifully illustrated A-to-Z compendium of fascinating facts, quirky stories, and unusual adaptations.
Flipping through this elegant, approachable book, you'll encounter oddities like the breathing knees of the swamp cypress or the illicit whiskey distilleries once fueled by juniper wood. Do you know what a vegetable sheep is, or what plants the Egyptians used in embalming? That poison dart frogs raise their young in tank bromeliads in the upper reaches of the forest canopy? Or that oak galls can be used as a source of ink? You'll learn all that and more before you get to Z in this lovely gift book.
Full of fascinating floral facts, Bizarre Botany will appeal to plant lovers and gardeners old and young, experienced or just starting out--and its bounty of oddities are sure to make you a hit at your next garden party.
Author Bio
Christina Harrison is the editor of Kew Magazine. She trained as an ecologist and botanical horticulturalist and has an MA in Garden History, for which she specialized in the trees at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Her books include Bizarre Botany:An A-Z Adventure Through the Plant Kingdom.
Source: The University of Chicago Press
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