Florapedia - A Brief Compendium of Floral Lore - Carol Gracie

Florapedia: A Brief Compendium of Floral Lore by Carol Gracie / ISBN 9780691211404 / An attractive little 200-page hardcover, about 5 x 7 inches (part of a series with Fungipedia), published by Princeton University Press *** A delightful illustrated treasury of botanical facts and fancy Florapedia is an eclectic A–Z compendium of botanical lore. With more than 100 enticing entries―on topics ranging from achlorophyllous plants that use a fungus as an intermediary to obtain nutrients from other plants to zygomorphic flowers that admit only the most select pollinators―this collection is a captivating journey into the realm of botany. Writing in her incomparably engaging style, Carol Gracie discusses remarkable plants from around the globe, botanical art and artists, early botanical explorers, ethnobotanical uses of plants, botanical classification and terminology, the role of plants in history, and more. She shares illuminating facts about van Gogh's sunflowers and reveals how a hallucino