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From Flower to Fruit

By Anne Ophelia Dowden

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Year
1984
ISBN
0-690-04402-X, 0-690-04403-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6491751 bytes)
Pages
56\72
Time added
2016-01-25 21:36:09

Description

Anne Ophelia Dowden meticulously describes and pictures, in full-colorpaintings and exquisite black-and-white drawings, the amazing variety of fruits made by flowering plants.Using specimens she has collected from all over the world, she explainshow fertilization occurs, how seeds are produced, and how flowers matureinto fruits. Here are over 150 fruit forms—from dry seed pods such as thelily and milkweed, with its tufted seeds, to hard-shelled nuts like hickoryand acorn, and the familiar fleshy fruits of the cherry, blackberry, cucumber, and fig.Ms. Dowden's minutely detailed illustrations and lucid, precise text reveal the intricate inner processes of life in its most elemental visible form.

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