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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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-379) and index

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Contents: 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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