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About the product Poison trees, killer flowers, stun bushes, strangler vines, leaves that can unleash war — in Amy Stewart’s book you will find descriptions of about two hundred selected «villains» of the plant world. A beautifully illustrated selection of seemingly harmless plants, the neighborhood and contact with which should be avoided, if you do not plan to go to the forefathers ahead of time. You will be surprised to find some of them on your windowsill, in your front garden or vegetable garden. A collection of chilling botany, on the pages of which medicine, history, chemistry and physics are closely intertwined with legends and mysticism, will entertain, alarm and enlighten even the most experienced gardeners and nature lovers, as well as all those who had triplets in botany and who what I heard that plants are not at all as harmless as they seem. • real «flowers of evil» are described in detail and impressively: murderers, poisoners, stranglers and others — including houseplants and garden plants loved by many; • cognitive reading in a beautiful design: «aged» pages, reproductions of fine etchings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs, illustrations by Jonathon Rosen; • Amy Stewart’s works have been translated into 17 languages, the total circulation of her books is more than 1 million copies. Quotes “With a kind of naive trust, most people perceive both their own gardens and the plants of the wild. We will never drink coffee from a glass forgotten on the sidewalk, but on a hike we can easily taste unfamiliar berries, as if this treat was left especially for us. We will not hesitate to brew a healing tea from unidentified bark and leaves, which a friend treated us to, assuming that everything natural is safe. And when a child appears in the house, the first thing we do is put plugs on the sockets, but we do not attach any importance to the kitchen plant in the pot or bush at the front door. This is despite the fact that every year 3900 people suffer from electric shock from the socket, while 68,847 get poisoning from plants. » “This book is not intended to encourage everyone to stay at home — rather the opposite. I am sure that it is useful for everyone to be in nature more often, but do not forget about its power. I live on the rocky coast of Northern California, where the waves of the Pacific Ocean take someone’s life every summer, sneaking up on a family relaxing on the beach. Locals know that these so-called killer waves attack without warning. I love the ocean, but I never turn my back on it. Plants deserve the same careful respect. They can nourish and heal, but they can also kill. » Amy Stewart Features Etchings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs, drawings by Jonathon Rosen She received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an American Horticultural Society Book Award. Treacherous Plants is one of her four bestsellers; in 2009, based on the book, a traveling national exhibition was created, which was attended by tens of thousands of children and adults. Amy Stewart’s inspiring lectures have been a huge success at Cornell and Harvard, Google and major conferences and book festivals, botanical gardens and libraries, TV and radio. Her books have been translated into 17 languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide. …
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