Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist - Hardcover

Peter Bernhardt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688083501 ISBN 13: 9780688083502

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1989

Synopsis

Gathers information on unusual plants found on the author's travels through Australia, South America, and the United States

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Bernhardt is a professor of biology at St. Louis University and a research associate at both the Missouri Botanical Garden of St. Louis and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Natural Affairs: A Botanist Looks at the Attachments between Plants and People and The Rose's Kiss: A Natural History of Flowers, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

From the Inside Flap:

In this book, Peter Bernhardt takes us on a grand tour of the botanical realm, weaving engaging descriptions of the lovely shapes and intriguing habits of flowering plants with considerations of broader questions, such as why there are only six basic shapes of flowers and why the orchid family is so numerous and so bizarre. Everyone from amateur naturalists and gardeners to plant scientists will find Wily Violets and Underground Orchids a lively guide to botanical lore.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0688083501
• ISBN 13: 9780688083502
• Binding: Hardcover