Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist by Bernhardt, Peter

Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226043661)

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Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist by Bernhardt, Peter

Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist

$30.00
Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist by Bernhardt, Peter

Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist

$30.00
Format: Paperback
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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.


Author: Peter Bernhardt
ISBN-10: 0226043665
ISBN-13: 9780226043661
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2003
Pages: 263
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.52w x 0.60d
By Peter Bernhardt
By Peter Bernhardt
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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.

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