Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us.
It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods...
Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet by David Beerling
Over 7 billion people depend on plants for healthy, productive, secure lives, but few of us stop to consider the origin of the plant kingdom that turned the world green and made our lives possible.
One of the new books I've recently purchased is called "Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence" by Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence.
I picked it up because I remembered years ago watching some episodes of a docu-series on Netflix that was in a similar vein; regrettably I don't recall the name of the series and wish I watched it in its completion, but it talked about stuff that is not really in the public knowledge, and new discoveries at the time.
I've wanted since then to learn more, but it always seemed like information was spread out and hard to engine search, or not available to the public at all, at least at the time I was looking, so I kind of have up (I could also just suck at looking things up lol).
I'm hoping this book will finally be what satiates my need to learn more about the subject.
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored
An essential addition to the gardener’s library, this colorful, fully illustrated book details the history of naming plants, provides an overview of Latin naming conventions, and offers guidelines for pronunciation. Readers will learn to identify Latin terms that indicate the provenance of a given plant and provide clues to its color, shape, fragrance, taste, behavior, functions, and more. @bookstodon #Latin #botany #plants
The renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz builds on the original edition to present an intriguing look at how plants themselves experience the world—from the colors they see to the schedules they keep, and now, what they do in fact hear and how they are able to taste.
“This book is as crisp as an October apple, as juicy as an August tomato, as long-awaited as the first flower of spring,. Michael Pollan has conceived a new and powerful understanding of who we are, and how we stand in relation to everything else—and the stories he tells to prove the point make the world seem a richer place.”
— Bill McKibben, author of Long Distance and The End of Nature
A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
In this thought-provoking, handsomely illustrated book, Italian neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso considers the fundamental differences between plants and animals and challenges our assumptions about which is the ‘higher’ form of life.
"We extracted ancient DNA from a recently exposed fracture surface of a clay brick deriving from the palace of king Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) in Nimrud, Iraq. We detected 34 unique taxonomic groups of plants."
"We extracted ancient DNA from a recently exposed fracture surface of a clay brick deriving from the palace of king Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) in Nimrud, Iraq. We detected 34 unique taxonomic groups of plants."
Originally from #Kentucky. #Queer. Hate noise pollution. Big fan of old #stories well-told. Fell in love with #fish first, then #plants, then #insects. My love-hate relationship with #sports goes in 5-year cycles.