Plants & fungi!

Book 2022

Discover how plants and fungi are essential to all life on earth. Meet the deadliest, smelliest, and downright weirdest flowers, fruits, and mushrooms known to science. Find out how fungi can turn ants into zombies and why corpse flowers smell like dead bodies. This book tells you everything you need to know about plants and fungi by showing you how they work with beautiful illustrations.

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Part of a Series:

DK Smithsonian

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ISBN:

9780744084719
0744084717

Edition:

First American edition

Description:

208 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm

Other Title:

DK Smithsonian Plants & fungi
Plants and fungi

Notes:

"Our growing world as you've never seen it before"--Cover
Includes index

Contents:

The plant kingdom
Growing and feeding
Reproduction
Ecosystems
People and plants
The fungus kingdom

Control Number:

3271796

Other Authors:

Beckett, Andrew, illustrator
Boddy, Lynne, contributor, consultant
DK Publishing, Inc., publisher
Smithsonian Institution, issuing body

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