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John Wiley & Sons
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[2025]
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Botany For Dummies gives you a thorough overview of the fundamentals of botany, but in simple terms that anyone can understand. Great for supplementing your botany coursework or brushing up before an exam, this book covers plant evolution, the structure and function of plant cells, and plant identification. Plus, you'll learn about how plants of different types are changing and adapting in response to changing climates. This new edition goes into...
2) Roots
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The important science concept of plant growth is featured in this beautiful, easily accessible book on roots. Clear photographs and simple, engaging text describe roots and how they help plants live and grow.
3) Stems
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The important science concept of plant growth is featured in this beautiful, easily accessible book on stems. Clear photographs and simple, engaging text describe stems and how they help plants live and grow.
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New Directions paperbook volume 1516
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"As if composed out of a botanical glossolalia of her own invention, Legris's poems map the garden as body and the body as garden--her words at home in the phytological and anatomical-like birds in a nest. From an imagined love-letter exchange on plants between garden designer Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson to a painting by Agnes Martin to the medicinal discourse of the first-century Greek pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides, Garden Physic...
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Plants are living things that use energy to survive! In this fascinating title, readers will learn all about plants and how they adapt to their surroundings in order to survive. Through engaging photos, charts, and graphs, children will learn some of the basic and most important aspects of plant life, including photosynthesis, the water cycle, and the different parts of plants. Readers will be encouraged to explore plant life even further with a simple...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
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"From tiny mosses and delicate ferns to vibrant blooms and stately palms, Flora invites you to explore the plant kingdom from the ground up, and from root to leaf tip. DK's elegant introduction to botany is packed with sumptuous photos and crystal-clear illustrations that explain the mechanics of photosynthesis, why leaves change color, how cacti store water, and how seeds know when to grow. Filled with fascinating stories of how plant roots and leaves...
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Candlewick Press
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2023.
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"As he works with his young granddaughter to nurture a potted sapling, a Latino landscaper shares his love and admiration of trees. From the extraordinary rainbow gum tree to the mighty, towering redwood, each of the thirteen specimens he tells of is a miracle of the natural world--and some are strange beyond the wildest imagining. Brimming with exuberance and color, this ode to trees of the world--and the vast knowledge of landscapers and gardeners--offers...
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Botany is the fundamental of plants life science from seed to a giant tree. It is the branch of biology which study of fruits and flowering plants are all there biochemical processes, structures, classification, evolution, physiology and the diseases when plants and trees interact with environment.In the book of Botany, text providing to guide with the latest content on plant life, plant biotechnology, and the most recent coverage of physiology and...
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Get the Summary of John Vaillant's The Golden Spruce in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant explores the intricate relationship between the coastal temperate rainforests of the Northwest Coast and the sea, focusing on the unique ecosystem and its historical significance. The narrative centers on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), home to the Haida people and the legendary golden...
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Get the Summary of Stefano Mancuso's The Revolutionary Genius of Plants in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Revolutionary Genius of Plants" by Stefano Mancuso presents a compelling argument for plant intelligence, demonstrating that plants possess the ability to remember, learn, and adapt without a centralized brain. Mancuso explores the concept of plant memory, citing experiments with Mimosa pudica that show...
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What is a tree? Why are they so important to life on Earth? How do they eat, breathe, grow, communicate, and regenerate themselves? How many different kinds of tree are there and where do they live? In this beautiful little book, illustrated with rare old engravings and specially commissioned drawings, internationally renowned Finnish tree boffin, Professor Olavi Huikari takes us on an unforgettable, journey deep into the secrets of these, hugest...
12) Botany in Vedas
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A part from spiritual and metaphysical knowledge, Vedas are also, treasure of scientific information. Vedic mathematics, Vedic astronomy and Vedic physics have gained enormous popularity among modern scientists. Vedic botany is also a full-fledged discipline and its advocacy is the basic purpose of this book. Although literature related to botanical wisdom in Vedas are available, but they are, mostly in discrete form. Attempt has been, made to compile...
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Hay más especies de orquídeas que de mamíferos, y hay árboles más grandes que una ballena azul. Hay plantas que emergen del hielo tras miles de años de congelación, mientras que otras acumulan oro o atraen a los murciélagos con sus ecos en la oscura jungla. Es el mundo asombroso de las plantas, esos seres verdes de los que depende la supervivencia de la humanidad.
Al explorar la obra de José Ramón Alonso y Yolanda González disfrutarás...
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La medicina tradicional en la sociedad de los kichwas del alto Napo practicada por ayumas y pajuyuk constituye un sistema coherente de nociones, conceptos, reglas, modelos y rituales tendientes a conservar la salud a través de las plantas medicinales, por esta razón se identificaron 30 especies y sus potenciales efectos terapéuticos, respetando los derechos que asisten al conocimiento y a los usos tradicionales de las plantas.
15) Botany
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Charles Kovacs characterizes different plants, from fungi, algae and lichens, to the lily and rose families. He describes the parts of each plant and their growth cycle.
It is recommended for Steiner-Waldorf curriculum Classes 5 and 6 (age 10-12).
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L'industrie du cidre a connu au cours des dix dernières années, en Europe, aux États-Unis, en Australie et au Canada, une forte croissance. Avec les développements récents, mais surtout sans précédent, du portefeuille de produits, des marchés de consommation et des reconnaissances marchandes, institutionnelles et internationales pour ses cidres, la filière cidricole québécoise n'est pas en reste.
Explorant une quinzaine de champs disciplinaires,...
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The photographs illustrating the "Plant Families in Pictures" were taken by Claude Trudel at the Montréal Botanical Garden. The many plants of the Montréal Botanical Garden come from all continents. They are grouped in thirty thematic gardens, the ten exhibition greenhouses and the vast arboretum. In this book, plant families are listed in alphabetical order (botanical name), with a plant example (common name, botanical name 'cultivar name', origin,...
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The book encompasses chapters on fungi from different substrates including fossilized leaves. In addition to nonliving substrates, association of pathogenic fungi with important plants like Introduction, Fungal Plant Pathogens and Symptomology, Fungal Taxonomy and Plant Pathogens, Pythium Root Rot and Rhizoctonia Root Rot, Septoria Tritici Blotch (STB) of Wheat, Fungal Plant Pathogens and Symptomology, Diseases of Wheat, Biotrophic Plant Pathogens,...
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Included is a study of the following genera of the family Apiaceae: Phlyctidocarpa, Actinolema, Alepidea, Arctopus, Astrantia, Eryngium, Petagnaea, Sanicula, Polemanniopsis, Steganotaenia, Aciphylla, Anisotome, Gingidia, Lignocarpa, Scandia, Acronema, Azilia, Bilacunaria, Bonann ia, Cachrys, Cenolophium, Diplolophium, Diplotaenia, Ferulago, Hansenia, Harrysmithia, Heptaptera, Hymenolaena, Keraymonia, Krubera, Levisticum, etc.
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Hong Kong possesses an impressively diverse tree flora with 390 native species. This book celebrates the incredible diversity, beauty and biology of the territory's tree species, highlighting over 100 important species that are individually illustrated in exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings by Sally Grace Bunker, an acclaimed botanical artist. The illustrations are accompanied by text that teases out a diversity of associated narratives for...
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