Fruit
Subtitle: edible, inedible, incredible
By: Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler ; edited & designed by Alexandra Papadakis
Contributors: Kesseler, Rob, author, photographer; Papadakis, Alexandra, editor
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781608872817
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Seeds; Fruit; Microscopy; Pictorial works
Description: Examines why fruits exist and how their short lives are critical to the natural order. Features razor-sharp cross-sections by visual artist Rob Kesseler using special light and scanning electron microscopy to create astonishing images of a variety of fruits and the seeds they shelter.
Notes: Originally pub.: Great Britain: Papadakis Publisher, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is a fruit?; title: What is a fruit and what is a vegetable?; title: Angiosperms, gymnosperms and those that copulate in secret; title: No flower, no fruit?; title: No carpel, no fruit?; title: What's in a fruit?; title: Simple fruits; title: Multiple fruits, several fruitlets from a single flower?; title: Schizocarpic fruits or how to emulate the multiple experience; title: Anthocarpous fruits, the carpologists' touchstone; title: Compound fruits, a single fruit from several flowers?; title: Carpological troublemakers; title: So what is a fruit?; title: Dispersal, the many ways to get around; title: Animal dispersal; title: Combing strategies; title: Directed dispersal; title: Fleshy fruits; title: The Millennium Seed Bank Project; title: Lusciousness, the crafted image in a digital environment.