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A Brief Compendium of Floral Lore
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Carol Gracie
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A delightful treasury of botanical facts and fancy
Florapedia is an eclectic A-Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries - on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators - this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany.
Writing in her incomparably engaging style, Carol Gracie discusses remarkable plants from around the globe, botanical art and artists, early botanical explorers, ethnobotanical uses of plants, botanical classification and terminology, the role of plants in history, and more. She shares illuminating facts about van Gogh's sunflowers and reveals how a hallucinogenic weed left its enduring mark on the early history of the Jamestown colony. Gracie describes the travels of John and William Bartram - father and son botanists and explorers who roamed widely in early America in search of plants - and delves into the miniature ecosystems entangled in Spanish moss.
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- Ryan sweet
- 04-20-23
great book with great facts
it's short but it's packed full of interesting information that most of which I did not previously know. definitely one for the shelf
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