Plant

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-06-14
Publisher(s): DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary

A guide to the complexities of the plant kingdom covers non-flowering as well as flowering plants and reveals their structure, natural history, and importance in human life.

Table of Contents

What is a plant?
6(2)
The parts of a plant
8(2)
A plant is born
10(2)
Bursting into bloom
12(2)
A light diet
14(2)
A simple flower dissected
16(2)
A complex flower
18(2)
All sorts of flowers
20(2)
How a plant is pollinated
22(2)
Strange pollinators
24(2)
From flower to fruit
26(2)
How seeds are spread
28(2)
Borne on the wind
30(2)
Spreading without seeds
32(2)
Living leaves
34(2)
Self-defense
36(2)
Creepers and climbers
38(2)
Meat eaters
40(2)
Caught in a trap
42(2)
Parasitic plants
44(2)
Plant passengers
46(2)
Adapting to water
48(2)
Surviving above the snowline
50(2)
Living without water
52(2)
Food from plants
54(2)
The story of wheat
56(2)
Potions and poisons
58(2)
The plant collectors
60(2)
Looking at plants
62(2)
Index 64

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