A garden of marvels : how we discovered that flowers have sex, leaves eat air, and other secrets of plants / Ruth Kassinger.

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Main Author: Kassinger, Ruth, 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a pt. I. Inside a plant : Cocktail, anyone? ; The birth and long life of the vegetable lamb ; Through a glass, however darkly ; The persecuted professor ; Inside a plant -- pt. II. Roots : Restless roots ; The enormous gourd ; The way of all water ; How to kill a hickory ; Our fine fungal friends ; Arsenic and young fronds ; The once and future wheat ; Off to the races -- pt. III. Leaves : New beginnings ; A momentous mint ; Leaves eat air ; The vegetable slug ; Once in a blue-green moon ; The tenacity of trees ; Amazing grass -- pt. IV. Flowers : Sex in the garden ; Who needs Romeo? ; Black petunias ; The abominable mystery ; Cheap sex ; Scent and sex -- pt. V. Onward, upward, and afterward : Trouble in paradise ; Onward and upward ; Afterward. 
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