Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids and Rock Splitters: The Remarkable Survival Strategies of Plants, by Jesse Vernon Trail
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A fascinating exploration of the world’s most unusual plantsWhether it’s an arctic heather that can create subtropical conditions within its leaves or a dwarf mistletoe that can shoot its seeds up to 50 feet away, plants demonstrate remarkable strategies in coping with and surviving their environment. They are often exposed to bitter cold, relentless winds, intense heat, drought, fire, pollution, and many other adverse growing conditions. Yet they are still able to survive and often even thrive.Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids and Rock Splitters: The Remarkable Survival Strategies of Plants showcases these exceptional plants with absorbing information and stunning photos that will inspire a new respect for nature’s innovation and resilience.
Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids and Rock Splitters: The Remarkable Survival Strategies of Plants, by Jesse Vernon Trail- Amazon Sales Rank: #1628049 in Books
- Brand: Trail, Jesse Vernon
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x .70" w x 5.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 300 pages
Review “Peppered with eye-catching photographs and illustrations, Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids and Rock Splitters showcases the many weird and wonderful ways plants adapt to survive and spread their progeny . . . A great book for anyone interested in botany, and particularly in adaptations.” — The Gardener"From hummingbirds on the high slopes of the Andes to sugarbirds on the South African Cape, Vernon takes the reader on an awe-inducing journey to discover the secret life of pollinators and the plants that depend upon them. . . You'll delight in the surprising, unusual, and downright amazing strategies plants use to cope and copulate." — Sierra Magazine
About the Author Jesse Vernon Trail is an author, instructor, and curriculum developer in environment, ecology, sustainability issues, horticulture, and the natural history of plants. He has had articles published in The Ecologist, Garden Making, Canadian Gardening, Plant and Garden, Fine Gardening, Gardenwise, Harrowsmith Country Life, Alive, and Outdoor Canada. Jesse lives in Vernon, B.C.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Where You Can Find the Plants in the U.S. Alaska Glehnia lelocarpa, Beach Silvertop Lysichiton americanus, Skunk Cabbage Monotropa uniflora, Indian Pipe Arizona Echinocactus polycephalus, Golden Barrel Cactus Echinocereus triglochidiatus, Kingcup Cactus, Claretcup, Mojave mound cactus California Chamerion angustifolium (syn. Epilobium angustifolium), Fireweed Atriplex canescens, Four Wing Salt Bush Glehnia lelocarpa, Beach Silvertop Lysichiton americanus, Skunk Cabbage Abronia latifolia, Sand Verbena Yucca Whipplei, Our Lord's Candle Sequoia sempervirens, California Redwoods Trifolium subterranean, Burrowing Clover Sequoiadendron giganteum, Giant Sequoia, Big Tree Carpobrotus edulis, Ice Plant, Hottentot Fig Pinus longaeva, Bristlecone Pine Calochortus luteus, Yellow Mariposa Lily Baileya multiradiata, Desert MarigoldColorado Echinocereus triglochidiatus, Kingcup Cactus, Claretcup, Mojave mound cactusEastern USA Sarracenia purpurea ssp. Gibbosa, Purple Pitcher PlantFlorida Ficus aurea, Golden FigMohave Desert Echinocereus triglochidiatus, Kingcup Cactus, Claretcup, Mojave mound cactus Caulanthus inflatus, Desert Candle Arctomecon merriamii, Desert Poppy Ferocactus cylindraceus, California barrel cactus, Desert barrel cactus, miner's compassMontana Lysichiton americanus, Skunk CabbageOregon Oenothera deltoids, Bird Cage Plant Rocky Mountains Eritrichium nanum, King of the Alps Salix Arctica, Arctic WillowSoutheastern USA Taxodium distichum, Swamp CypressSouthwestern USA Geraea canescens, Desert SunflowerTexas Echinocereus triglochidiatus, Kingcup Cactus, Claretcup, Mojave mound cactusVermont Chamerion angustifolium (syn. Epilobium angustifolium), FireweedWashington Trifolium subterranean, Burrowing Clover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A fascinating look at the plant world By Steve G I received this book for free via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.I enjoyed this book. Author Jesse Vernon Trail crafted a fascinating discussion about plants. He covers a lot of ground (pun not intended) but doesn't get bogged down in the details. The book is logically divided into bite-sized chunks and is easy to follow. This is a descriptive book and what science there is, is very clearly explained. The photographs are beautiful. I recommend this book for anyone interested in botany, whether they have a science background or not. It goes well with, and does not overlap with, Thor Hanson's The Triumph of Seeds.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent photos and loads of information marred by flawed writing. Most descriptions are quite brief. By lyndonbrecht This is an extremely frustrating book. The writing is mostly not very good, but sometimes gets a little better. The amount of information is amazing, and the photos are quite good. The overall organization is, to me. not particularly logical. Descriptions of plants are mostly quite short, and I think fewer descriptions and more substance to the ones covered would have made this a better book. It could have been such a good book, the idea is great and the author seems to know his material thoroughly. But the writing, consistently not very good. In this book at least, Trail has an irritating habit of using "we" as if we were on a tour. Might work in a video but not so well in the book. There's also one sizable error somebody should have caught: "During the building of the Suez Canal in Central America..." He also refers to the Indian pipe from the meadows of Greenland, which I think is an error but could not track down. The problem with such errors is that they tend to discredit other information.I found a couple of the photos to be wonderful. One is of a rock fig clinging to a nearly vertical cliff face. And the one of the quiver tree looks like Dali painted a Mexican cowboy's spurs. I found a couple of the chapters to be better than the others. One is the chapter on adaptations to the arctic, and the other is the chapter on "rocksplitters."Other readers may find other chapters interesting--the information really is interesting. There are chapters on vegetative reproduction, adaptations to the desert, adaptations to fire and defensive strategies.
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