Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Stewart, Amy

ISBN 10: 1452602840 ISBN 13: 9781452602844

Verlag: Tantor Media, Inc, 2011

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"Culling legend and citing science, Stewart's fact-filled, AZ compendium of nature's worst offenders offers practical and tantalizing composite views of toxic, irritating, prickly, and all-around ill-mannered plants." ---Booklist

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Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly.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. Amy Stewart, bestselling author of Flower Confidential, takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.Stewart renders a vivid portrait of evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, enlighten, and alarm even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.

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• Verlag: Tantor Media, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1452602840
• ISBN 13: 9781452602844
• Einband: CD de audio