Botany

The scientific study of plants.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
The Signature of All Things
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Botany for Gardeners
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Lab Girl
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
What Moves the Dead by T. KingfisherMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaSorrowland by Rivers SolomonThe Beauty by Aliya WhiteleyRosewater by Tade Thompson
Fungus Fiction
50 books — 43 voters
The Tree by Colin TudgeThe Hidden Life of Trees by Peter WohllebenThe Wild Trees by Richard   PrestonA Walk in the Woods by Bill  BrysonThe Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
Deciduous and Coniferous Forests
239 books — 29 voters

Rats by Robert SullivanLily Pond by Hope RydenThe Irish Wildlife Book by Fergus O'GormanPaddy by R.D. LawrenceEager by Ben  Goldfarb
Natural History of Rodents
40 books — 9 voters

Sylvia Mercedes
Flowers knew who they were, and they didn't let you get away with much. If you tried to force your will upon them, they'd simply die to teach you a lesson ...more
Sylvia Mercedes, A Spot of Tea and Sorcery - Volume 1

I plonk myself down opposite him and open the first book, titled Wild and Weird: Flowers Beyond the Garden. The green angelica flower embroidered on the cover represents inspiration and imagination. Based on that alone, I expect the author of this particular book to embellish a few facts, but it’s still worth a flick through. A few pages in, I come across a beautifully illustrated vine of clematis, each violet-inked flower detailing eight long petals, open like a giant star. I’ve never actually ...more
Becky Jenkinson, Wildflower

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