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Adrian Slack focuses on some fifty species, using photographs, line drawings, and diagrams to illustrate their peculiarities. The mobile tentacles of the Sundews, the snapping lobes of the Venus Fly Trap, and the slippery, baited pitfalls of the Pitcher Plants seem the stuff of science fiction, yet these amazing plants do exist. Adrian Slack focuses on some fifty species, using photographs, line drawings, and diagrams to illustrate their peculiarities. He explores in detail the wily manner in which each type of plant entices, catches, and digests its prey.
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Adrian Slack, a landscape architect...owns one of the world's largest collections of carnivorous plants...Exquisite photographs by Jane Gate supplement the fascinating details of Mr. Slack's text, which includes a section on how to grow carnivorous plants.
--Jane E. Brody, The New York TimesThe paperback version of a book first published in 1979, this is an illustrated and wide-ranging study of some 200 types of carnivorous plants. It provides botanical and ecological descriptions of the plants and illustrates their trapping mechanisms. It also includes a section on how to grow some of them. The author has accumulated one of the world's largest private collections of carnivorous plants. He has taken a Chelsea Gold Medal for five consecutive years.
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- PublisherAlphabooks
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0713630795
- ISBN 13 9780713630794
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
- IllustratorGate Jane
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