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The palmetto book : histories and mysteries of the cabbage palm /
In this fascinating journey through the natural and cultural history of the palmetto, Jono Miller offers surprising facts and dispels common myths about an important native plant that remains largely misunderstood.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville, FL :
University Press of Florida,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1 : Quest for the Ages: How Long Can These Things Live?
- Are Cabbage Palms Trees? Wood? Grass?
- Bootjacks: Fronds, How They Work (and Fail)
- Hunting Island: The Curious Recurved Seedling
- One Plant, Many Names
- Part 2 : Anomalies: Oddball Palms Get Noticed (and Collected)
- Diseases Stalk the Cabbage Palm
- Groves: The Strange Relationship with Citrus
- Cabbage Palms in the Landscape
- Picayune: Natural Florida Threatened by Native Palms
- Panther-Killing Palms: Disturbance Alters the Food Chain
- Birds and Bees: Wildlife in the Palms
- Coastal Creep: Natural Distribution, East Coast
- Coastal Creep: Natural Distribution, Gulf Coast
- Last Tree Standing: Rising Sea Level on Florida's Big Bend Coast
- Part 3 : Hearts of Palm: The Tree You Can Eat
- Palm Entrepreneurs: Money Growing on Trees
- Seminole Thatch: Chickees and Tikis
- Sweetgrass Baskets: Gullah/Geechee South Carolinians Create Value from African Skills
- Palm Abodes: A Different Approach to Log Cabins
- Cheesecake: The Most-Photographed Cabbage Palm
- Fine Artists Contemplate the Cabbage Palm
- Toby Kwimper: A Cinematic Experiment in Ecological Succession
- Elegance Doesn't Come Easy: The South Carolina State Flag
- Coda
- Lost in Space: What the Aliens Will Learn about Us.