Plant
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Plant
（Eyewitness guides）（A Dorling Kindersley book）
Dorling Kindersley, 2003
- : pbk
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"In association with the Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew"
"Hardback edition first published in Great Britain in 1989"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This title is a valuable resource to students learning about all aspects of plants from how the wind can affect a plant's shape to the different stages of germination.
Discover amazing facts - the earliest 'plants' were so small it would have takendozens of them to cover a pinhead
Table of Contents
- What is a plant?
- the parts of a plant
- a plant is born
- bursting into bloom
- a light diet
- a simple flower is dissected
- a complex flower
- all sorts of flowers
- how a plant is pollinated
- strange pollinators
- from flower to fruit
- how weeds are spread
- borne on the wind
- spreading without seeds
- living leaves
- self-defence
- creepers and climbers
- meat eaters
- caught in a trap
- parasitic plants
- plant passengers
- adapting to water
- surviving above the snowline
- living without water
- food from plants
- the story of wheat
- potions and poisons
- the plant collectors
- looking at plants
- did you know?
- plant classification
- find out more.
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