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Celebrate the strange, unique, and wonderful world of plants with a book that highlights the diversity of the botanical world. Plants are truly remarkable. They can be enormous, tiny, foul-smelling, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live alone, while others grow off other plants. Some live on just air and water, others are carnivorous, devouring the creatures around them, while some look remarkably like animals and others have unusual symbolic significance or special cultural weight. This book explores all of this, gathering the weirdest and most fascinating plants on the planet—celebrating them in all their variety.
It is divided into five chapters that cover everything from poisonous plants to painkillers. Michael Perry explains exactly what makes each plant special. With intricately detailed illustrations of all the different species, this book is an informative, humorous, and beautiful gift choice for everyone who loves plants—whether they want to grow them or not. Hortus Curious offers a different perspective on the world of plants and the enjoyment of their peculiar and outrageous features.
The book is divided into five chapters, covering:
- Plants with Bad Behavior - the criminal world of plants like poisonous plants, insect-catching plants, and dangerous plants.
- Mistaken Identity - plants that resemble other things, e.g., flowers that look like monkeys or dead man's fingers.
- Big Benefit - did you know aspirin comes from a plant? This chapter explores the plants that are part of our everyday products.
- Superheroes - discover the plants that can disguise themselves, changing color, shape, or even moving around.
- X-rated Plants - a selection of the most "provocative" plants around!
A humorous and quirky gift book for people interested in plants and gardening, Hortus Curious will surely delight.
Pages: 192, Dimensions: 17.8x17.8cm
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- DK
- Type
- Botanical & Therapeutic Herbs, Culture
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- Discover the World's Most Weird and Wonderful Plants and Fungi
- Cover
- Hardcover
- Release Date
- -
- Dimensions
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9780241561553
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