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Plants enjoying the high life
Plants on Plants – The Biology of Vascular Epiphytes by Gerhard Zotz. Springer 2016. Gerhard Zotz’s The biology of vascular epiphytes [hereafter referred to as Epiphytes!
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Plant anatomy goes back to its roots (stems, leaves…)
Does “Essentials of Developmental Plant Anatomy” cover the essentials of developmental plant anatomy? Nigel Chaffey looks over the introductory textbook.
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Resource: The Chicago Guide to Fact–Checking
How can you make the process of fact-checking easier, so you know what you’re saying is accurate? Ian Street finds a useful resource.
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Five Books From Oxford University Press to Deepen Your Fascination with Plants
The publisher of The Annals of Botany Company journals Annals of Botany and AoB Plants, Oxford University Press, has many titles about plants and plant science
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The Sex Lives of Plants Laid Bare
Flora Unveiled: The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants. Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz. Oxford University Press, 2017. Living in the 21st century with easy
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Botany in the 317 years-long century…
The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century. Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan and Anatole Tchikine (Editors). Dumbarton Oaks, 2016. Notwithstanding the importance of botany
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Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Extinction should be a sad subject, but one author was also able to point out how absurd it could be too.
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Review: Collins Wild Flower Guide
Sarah Cody and a team of volunteers see if the latest edition of the Collins Wild Flower Guide is a worthy successor.
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A visit to the plant museum…
Botanicum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis, 2016, Standard Edition.* Big Picture Press. Botanicum is big. Really big. At 38 cm tall and 28 cm wide,
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Phaidon’s plethora of printed plant pulchritude
Plant: Exploring the Botanical World by Phaidon editors, 2016. Phaidon From the first sight of Plant: Exploring the Botanical World [hereafter reduced to Plant]’s cover
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Bigging-up wood work
Secondary Xylem Biology: Origins, Functions, and Applications. Edited by Yoon Soo Kim, Ryo Funada and Adya Singh. Academic Press, 2016. We don’t get that many
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Earth’s history and biodiversity – in Technicolor!
Biodiversity and Earth History. Authors: Jens Boenigk, Sabina Wodniok and Edvard Glücksman. Springer, 2015. This book just blows me away! It is so richly illustrated – adorned