Plant discoveries
Subtitle: a botanist's voyage through plant exploration
By: Sandra Knapp.
Contributors: Knapp, Sandra.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Plants.; Botany.; Plants -- Pictorial works.; Flowers -- Pictorial works.; Plantes.; Botanique.
Description: The author of Flora Mesoamerica presents essays on twenty fascinating plant families, including cacti, daffodils, iris, magnolia, poppies, roses, tulips, conifers, hibiscus, palms, and waterlillies, taking readers on a colorful tour of the natural and human history surrounding each plant.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-331) and index.
Originally published as: Potted histories : an artistic voyage through plant exploration. London : Scriptum Editions, 2003.