By Teri Dunn Chace,Robert Llewellyn
A centuries-old asserting is going, “Great oaks from little acorns grow.” yet as this miraculous ebook finds, there's even more to a seed than the plant it's going to sometime turn into: seeds, seedheads, pods, and culmination have their very own stunning attractiveness that opponents, and occasionally even surpasses, the great thing about flora. sour melon seeds resemble a handful of rubies. Poppy pods may well be paintings nouveau salt shakers. And butterfly vine seeds glance precisely like these gentle bugs captured in mid-flight.
Seeds additionally include interesting tales. Jewels of Opar received its identify from a fabled urban in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan tales. Lotus seeds despatched into orbit via chinese language scientists got here again to earth mysteriously altered. And fava beans—beloved of foodies—have a Jekyll-and-Hyde character: they could reason the debilitating situation referred to as favism in a few participants and even as strive against the microorganism that motives malaria.
In those wonderful pages you’ll achieve an knowing of ways seeds are shaped and dispersed, why they appear the best way they do, and the way they healthy into the surroundings. Seeing Seeds will take you to unusual and lovely areas. in case you go back, it’s secure to assert that you’ll by no means examine a seed a similar manner again.
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