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Quiver Trees, Phantom Orchids & Rock Splitters: The Remarkable Survival Strategies of Plants by [Jesse Vernon Trail]

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“Showcases the many weird and wonderful ways plants adapt to survive and spread their progeny . . . A great book for anyone interested in botany” (The Gardener).

Whether it’s an arctic heather that can create subtropical conditions within its leaves, or a dwarf mistletoe that can shoot its seeds up to fifty feet away, plants demonstrate remarkable strategies in coping with and surviving their environments.

Plants 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. This book showcases these exceptional plants with absorbing information and stunning photos that will inspire a new respect for nature’s innovation and resilience.

“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

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June 1, 2015
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50735 KB
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“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

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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.

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ASIN : B00P6VHR22
Publisher : ECW Press (June 1, 2015)
Publication date : June 1, 2015
Language : English
File size : 50735 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 305 pages
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #1,408,356 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #240 in Botany of Trees
- #366 in Outdoor & Nature Reference
- #819 in Environmental Ecology

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Tanis Coralee Leonhardi

Attention holding, wanted more clarity

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2019

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I was missing the technical details that linked these organisms to their environments in a clear way. Only things I would have asked for are more technical nitty-gritty details and tying the organisms in to their environment (geologically speaking not biologically speaking) and global climate.

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lyndonbrecht

Excellent photos and loads of information marred by flawed writing. Most descriptions are quite brief.

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2016

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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Steve G

A fascinating look at the plant world

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2015

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.

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