What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses of Your Garden (and Beyond)
By Daniel Chamovitz.
Description
How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insect's tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they actually remember the weather?For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form―from Charles Darwin's early fascination with stems to Seymour Krelborn's distorted doting in Little Shop of Horrors. But now, in What a Plant Knows, the renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz presents an intriguing and scrupulous look at how plants themselves experience the world―from the colors they see to the schedules th...
ISBN(s)
1851689109, 9781851689101
