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Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist
University of Chicago Press, 2003 Paper: 978-0-226-04366-1
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this book, Peter Bernhardt takes us on a grand tour of the botanical realm, weaving engaging descriptions of the lovely shapes and intriguing habits of flowering plants with considerations of broader questions, such as why there are only six basic shapes of flowers and why the orchid family is so numerous and so bizarre. Everyone from amateur naturalists and gardeners to plant scientists will find Wily Violets and Underground Orchids a lively guide to botanical lore. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Peter Bernhardt is a professor of biology at St. Louis University and a research associate at both the Missouri Botanical Garden of St. Louis and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Natural Affairs: A Botanist Looks at the Attachments between Plants and People and The Rose's Kiss: A Natural History of Flowers, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Peter H. Raven PART ONE - ECCENTRIC ENVIRONS 1. Trees of Two Seasons 2. A Child's Garden of Gumnuts 3. A Country of Mistletoes 4. Prairie Days PART TWO - THE FLORAL THEATER 5. The Forms of Flowers 6. Pollinating Possums 7. Beetles, Blossoms, and the Blood of Adonis 8. An Ancient Moth for an Ancient Flower PART THREE - PORTRAITS IN CHLOROPHYLL 9. Royal Amazons 10. The Wily Violets 11. In the Shadow of Forest and Glacier 12. Hanging by Their Heels PART FOUR - THOSE UNNATURAL FLOWERS 13. Lady's Wear 14. San Salvador's Urban Orchids 15. Orchidelirium 16. Charles Darwin and the Christmas Star 17. The Fiendish Orchid 18. Orchids in the Dark Annotated Bibliography Index See other books on: Bernhardt, Peter | Botany | Life Sciences | Plants | Revelations See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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