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
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
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
Hope Jahren
The leaves of the world comprise countless billion elaborations of a single, simple machine designed for one job only – a job upon which hinges humankind. Leaves make sugar. Plants are the only things in the universe that can make sugar out of nonliving inorganic matter. All the sugar that you have ever eaten was first made within a leaf. Without a constant supply of glucose to your brain, you will die. Period. Under duress, your liver can make glucose out of protein or fat – but that protein or ...more
Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

It would be easy to get the idea from all this that Mimosa is some kind of genius, a veritable Einstein among vegetables. But there's no evidence for this at all. The reason all this work has focused on Mimosa is simply that its ability to move (and fast) makes it a convenient experimental subject, which in turn reveals just what a hasty bunch we are; other plants may well be smarter than Mimosa, but until very recently biologists had generally decided that it would take too long to find out. ...more
Ken Thompson, Darwins Most Wonderful Plants

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