Plant
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Plant
(Eyewitness guides)(A Dorling Kindersley book)
Dorling Kindersley, 2003
- : pbk
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"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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