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Cargando... Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (2009 original; edición 2009)por Amy Stewart (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The author provides a pretty extensive list of plants that are bad players. The descriptions are interesting and the illustrations are well done. I enjoyed reading the book and learned about many plants that I did not know much about. The information would be helpful to avoid injury or death. It is interesting that the plants have developed the methods for protection and other benefits. ( ) Very interesting -- makes me amazed that humans have found any edible plants at all! The book certainly makes one think that majority of plants are poisonous. I wish there was a full colour version with official botanical pics of the plants for id purposes. Most of the "stories" are simple anecdotes, so the book is a little more like "light reference" -- it doesn't even go in depth on many of the plants. Just a tasting of the defenses out there. I couldn't put it down and it became too much of a good thing. The author covers poisonous plants, plants that cause irritation, but also -plants people are commonly allergic to-. And importantly, alerts for plants that household pets will be injured or worse by! In the ebook, the epilogue provides links to active sites where plant information can be put into a database, and a list of Poison Gardens in the USA and elsewhere. I was so glad to read this.
Wicked Plants is a stroll down a garden path of dread. Some of the most beloved and innocent plants in our own personal edens are villains at their core...Some 3,900 people in the U.S. are injured every year by poking around electrical outlets, while more than 68,000 are poisoned by plants... Pertenece a las seriesWicked Things (1) InspiradoPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Stewart takes on more than 200 of Mother Nature's most appalling creations and offers this A-to-Z compendium of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)581.65Natural sciences and mathematics Plants Specific topics in natural history of plants Miscellaneous nontaxonomic kinds of plants Harmful plantsClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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