Saturday, January 23, 2010

Having Trouble returning this to the library

Planthropology – Ken Druse, garden writer (Making More Plants)and lecturer presents a new book about plant mysteries, secrets and curiosities with beautiful photos of plant parts. He reveals the geometric equations in flower buds, arcing patterns in pinecones, repeating leaf arrangements in nearly all plants, and the mathematics of patterns in architecture and plant life as well as other cosmological designs. If you like to ponder leaf bracts and stare at bark patterns, (as I do) this is the book for you. Of course, knowing the right name for plants helps you understand their lineage and begin to get their story. The pursuit of the story, begun with the name, followed by the study of growth habits caused him to coin the blended scientific term, planthropology. Also offered is a summary of the major plant explorers like Douglas(as in Xmas tree) and Banks. This is a book I want to have around. The photos are awesome!

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