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Florapedia : a brief compendium of floral lore /
"This book is an engaging and informative compendium of flower facts. Similar in a nature to Lawrence Millman's Fungipedia, the book brings together a wide range of interesting facts and stories-ranging from the historical to the scientific to the whimsical. The book has roughly 100 entrie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Achlorophyllous plants
- Bartram, John (1699-1777) and William (1739-1823)
- Cardabelle (Carlina acanthifolia), Asteraceae
- Darwin's orchid (Angraecum sesquipedale), Orchidaceae
- Edible flowers
- Fig flowers (Ficus spp.), Moraceae
- Gallé, Émile (1846-1904)
- Haustorium
- Inflorescence
- Jack- in- the- pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), Araceae
- Kalm, Peter (1715- 1779)
- Lilies (Lilium spp.), Liliaceae
- Marcgraviaceae (shingle plant family)
- Napoleon and violets: A love story
- O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986)
- Partridge- berry (Mitchella repens), Rubiaceae
- Qualea spp., Vochysiaceae
- Resupinate
- Saffron (Crocus sativus), Iridaceae
- Thigmotaxis
- Ultraviolet patterns on flowers
- Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)
- Wilson, Ernest Henry (1876-1930)
- Xerophytes
- Yesterday, today, and tomorrow (Brunfelsia pauciflora), Solanaceae
- Zingiber, Zingiberaceae
- Acknowledgments
- Selected References