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. Amy Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.Menacing botanical illustrations render a ghastly portrait of evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, enlighten, and alarm even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.
In this delightfully devilish coloring book, Amy Stewart and Briony Morrow-Cribbs bring us the forty most menacing botanical atrocities from their New York Times bestseller Wicked Plants. Morrow-Cribb
THE WICKED HEALTHY COOKBOOK presents a simple game plan endorsed by every doctor and health organization in the world: eat more plants. Chefs Chad and Derek Sarno are among the world's foremost author
"In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, the author of Paradise Under Glass gives us a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraord