Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist
Autor Peter Bernhardten Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 iul 2003
In this book, Peter Bernhardt takes us on a grand tour of the botanical realm, weaving engaging descriptions of the lovely shapes and intriguing habits of flowering plants with considerations of broader questions, such as why there are only six basic shapes of flowers and why the orchid family is so numerous and so bizarre. Everyone from amateur naturalists and gardeners to plant scientists will find Wily Violets and Underground Orchids a lively guide to botanical lore.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226043661
ISBN-10: 0226043665
Pagini: 263
Ilustrații: 7 halftones, 24 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226043665
Pagini: 263
Ilustrații: 7 halftones, 24 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Peter Bernhardt is a professor of biology at St. Louis University and a research associate at both the Missouri Botanical Garden of St. Louis and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Natural Affairs: A Botanist Looks at the Attachments between Plants and People and The Rose's Kiss: A Natural History of Flowers, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Cuprins
Foreword by Peter H. Raven
PART ONE - ECCENTRIC ENVIRONS
1. Trees of Two Seasons
2. A Child's Garden of Gumnuts
3. A Country of Mistletoes
4. Prairie Days
PART TWO - THE FLORAL THEATER
5. The Forms of Flowers
6. Pollinating Possums
7. Beetles, Blossoms, and the Blood of Adonis
8. An Ancient Moth for an Ancient Flower
PART THREE - PORTRAITS IN CHLOROPHYLL
9. Royal Amazons
10. The Wily Violets
11. In the Shadow of Forest and Glacier
12. Hanging by Their Heels
PART FOUR - THOSE UNNATURAL FLOWERS
13. Lady's Wear
14. San Salvador's Urban Orchids
15. Orchidelirium
16. Charles Darwin and the Christmas Star
17. The Fiendish Orchid
18. Orchids in the Dark
Annotated Bibliography
Index
PART ONE - ECCENTRIC ENVIRONS
1. Trees of Two Seasons
2. A Child's Garden of Gumnuts
3. A Country of Mistletoes
4. Prairie Days
PART TWO - THE FLORAL THEATER
5. The Forms of Flowers
6. Pollinating Possums
7. Beetles, Blossoms, and the Blood of Adonis
8. An Ancient Moth for an Ancient Flower
PART THREE - PORTRAITS IN CHLOROPHYLL
9. Royal Amazons
10. The Wily Violets
11. In the Shadow of Forest and Glacier
12. Hanging by Their Heels
PART FOUR - THOSE UNNATURAL FLOWERS
13. Lady's Wear
14. San Salvador's Urban Orchids
15. Orchidelirium
16. Charles Darwin and the Christmas Star
17. The Fiendish Orchid
18. Orchids in the Dark
Annotated Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
“It’s hard to choose among the riches Bernhardt offers as he weaves his way from grassland to city street, outback to backyard. At every stop, something is pollinating something. . . . Bernhardt’s style is a treat. . . . Read on into the green world of a fine botanist’s telling revelations.”
"Some of the strangest behavior in nature occurs in plants. Writing in a popular style, Bernhardt mingles fact and history with his own observations of plants gained during travels in the United States, South America, and Australia. His absorbing account . . . covers amazing conduct of both obscure and familiar plants, including seasonality and its consequences in a tropical cyclically dry forest; Australian mistletoe, whose leaves mimic those of the trees with which they have a parasitic relationship; the ecology of our North American grasslands; pollination by mammals, beetles, and moths; Amazonian giant water lilies; the eccentric life of the common violet; and five chapters on the strangest plants of all, the orchids."