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The Big, Bad Book of Botany - The World's Most Fascinating Flora (Paperback)
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The Big, Bad Book of Botany - The World's Most Fascinating Flora (Paperback)
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List price R421
Loot Price R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
You Save R102 (24%)
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"A wild ride through the plant world."--The American Gardener An
entertaining and enlightening compendium of the world's most
amazing and bizarre plants, revealing their secrets, history, and
lore What happens when you give a plant a polygraph test? Can a
flower really turn a human into a zombie? What gives the gingko
tree its stink? The Big, Bad Book of Botany holds the incredible
answers to all of these questions and more. From absinthe to
zubrowka (a popular ingredient in Polish vodkas), award-winning
author Michael Largo takes you through the historical and
agricultural evolution of hundreds of plant species, revealing
astonishing facts along the way. You'll be introduced to magic
mushrooms, superfoods, and toxic teas. You'll learn about plants so
valuable they have started international wars, so evolved they can
trick animals into helping them survive, and so deadly a single
taste of one will kill you. Featuring more than one hundred and
forty illustrations, this fascinating and fun A-to-Z encyclopedia
for all ages will transform the way you look at the natural world.
Did you know? * The word hashish comes from the Arabic hashshashin,
the name for a group of Persian assassins who were given the drug
to calm their nerves before each assignment.* The fossil of the
oldest-known tree to have thrived on the planet was found in New
York's Catskill Mountains, and dates back to more than 360 million
years ago.* The avocado, though delicious to humans, is toxic to
most animals.* Sunflowers grow according to a mathematical formula
known as the "golden ratio," and almost always produce exactly 55
or 144 seeds. Featuring more than 150 photographs and
illustrations, The Big, Bad Book of Botany is a fascinating, fun
A-to-Z encyclopedia for all ages that will transform the way we
look at the natural world.
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