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The big, bad book of botany : the world's most fascinating flora / Michael Largo ; illustrations by Margie Bauer ... [et al].

by Largo, Michael, 1954-

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William Morrow, c2014.

Botany -- Encyclopedias.

Plants -- Encyclopedias.

Botany -- Miscellanea.

Plants -- Miscellanea.

Medicinal plants.

Carnivorous plants.

9780062282750 (pbk.)

0062282751 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Botany : the world's most fascinating flora

xv, 398 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subtitle from cover.

Some copies may be permabound.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-398).

An A-to-Z exploration of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a person to stone. Others have been used by assassins to kill kings, and sorcerers to revive the dead. Here, too, is vegetation with astonishing properties to cure and heal, many of which have long since been lost with the advent of modern medicine. Organized alphabetically, this guide combines the latest in biological information with bizarre facts about the plant kingdom's oddest members, including a species that is more poisonous than a cobra and a prehistoric plant that actually 'walked.' The history of vegetables and fruits and their astonishing agricultural evolution. Astonishing facts, from where the world's first tree grew to whether plants are telepathic.

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