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22) Plant parts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Describes the world of plants and the various parts of specific plants, such as flower, seed, roots, trunk, and more.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
If you think kale and blueberries are the only superfoods you need in your kitchen, think again. Mushrooms are nature's original superfood, and these potent adaptogens have been used by physicians around the world for thousands of years, thanks to their abilities to boost immunity, restore hormonal balance, tame inflammation, and so much more. Best of all, all you have to do to reap the incredible health benefits of mushrooms like reishi and chaga...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated history of plants presented through the stories of 50 key fossil discoveries"--
Kenrick provides a lively, fully illustrated story of plant life on Earth as revealed through some of the most significant fossil discoveries ever made. Beginning with the origins of plant life in the sea, where photosynthesis first evolved in bacteria, he traces the evolution of land plants, ferns, conifers and their relatives, and flowering plants. Each...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insect's tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they actually remember the weather? For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form--from Charles Darwin's early fascination with stems to Seymour Krelborn's distorted doting in Little Shop of Horrors. But now, in What a Plant Knows, the renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious legumes to horny hot peppers, most of humanity's calories and other nutrition come from seeds and fruits--the products of sex--or from flowers, the organs that make plant sex possible. Sex has also played an arm's-length...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Complete Medicinal Herbal is a fully illustrated practical guide to the healing properties of herbs. The book includes more than 120 medicinal herbs with important therapeutic properties and a section on their historical uses, The Complete Medicinal Herbal is a must for every home book shelve. All the parts of the plants that can be used medicinally are shown, from fresh flower petals or leaves to the root, bark, and juice. Each entry details the...
Author
Series
Nature's folklore volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lore of the Wild delves into traditional nature folklore from around the world, revealing the influence of trees, plants, insects, birds, animals and weather on daily life. Did you know that people used to believe that rabbits' ears would twitch in the direction of a thunderstorm? That lily of the valley flowers were formed from fairies' drinking cups? And that taking dandelions into the house would make you wet the bed? Traditional nature folklore...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world to live a better, more fulfilling life. Looking around at the world today-a world of skyscrapers, super highways, melting ice caps, and rampant deforestation-it is easy to feel that humanity has actively severed its ties with nature. It's no wonder that we are starving to rediscover a connection with the natural world. With new...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans...
35) Mushroom rain
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What can smell like bubble gum, glow neon green at night, be poisonous and yet still eaten by humans, and even help create rain? The answer is mushrooms! From their hidden networks underground to the fruiting body above, mushrooms can do incredible things. But don't call them plants--mushrooms are fungi. They're more closely related to animals like you! Through lyrical text and colorful, detailed artwork, the wonderful, mysterious, and sometimes...
36) A seed grows
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An educational picture book about the life cycle of a sunflower"--
37) Wildflowers
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Information about wildflowers for children"--
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