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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln´s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

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Description for Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln´s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities Hardback. Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly. Num Pages: 236 pages, ill. BIC Classification: WMP; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 320.

A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war.

In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations. It's an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.

You'll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs), which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South), and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln's ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Workman Publishing United States
Number of pages
236
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781604691276
SKU
V9781604691276
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99-97

About Amy Stewart
Briony Morrow-Cribbs studied studied art at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, and currently lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she owns and operates Twin Vixen Press. Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. She is the cofounder of the popular blog Garden ... Read more

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