44.Wicked Plants: The Exhibit is housed in a derelict Victorian-era home packed with plants that stink, burn, and even kill. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers. Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. 9781604691276 Wicked Plants 44.6000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction/mathematics-science/science/natural-history /shop/books/non-fiction/mathematics-science /shop/books/non-fiction/mathematics-science/science /shop/books/non-fiction A tree that sheds poison daggers a glistening red seed that stops the heart a shrub that causes paralysis a vine that strangles and a leaf that triggered a war.
You'll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln's mother). A tree that sheds poison daggers a glistening red seed that stops the heart a shrub that causes paralysis a vine that strangles and a leaf that triggered a war. You'll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate th. It's an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations.
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