Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.ĭimensions : 5.69 x 0.83 x 7. Menacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. This book title, The Wicked Plants Coloring Book, ISBN: 9781616206833, by Amy Stewart, Briony Morrow-Cribbs, published by Algonquin. 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 mother). It’s an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. 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. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincolns Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart.
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