Carnivorous Plants.

Slack, Adrian

ISBN 10: 0589501429 / ISBN 13: 9780589501426

Published by A. H. & A. W. Reed, Sydney, 1981

About this Item

240pp, index, glossary, bibliography, appendices, num bw ills, col photos. Or black cloth boards in pictorial jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Standard work on the carnivorous plants for cultivation, and in the wild, including pitcher plants, sundews, bladder worts and more. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 031222

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carnivorous Plants.
• Publisher: A. H. & A. W. Reed, Sydney
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0589501429
• ISBN 13: 9780589501426
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Gate, Jane (photographer)
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Agriculture, Farming, Gardening
  • Natural History & Environment

About this title

Synopsis

Adrian Slack focuses on some fifty species, using photographs, line drawings, and diagrams to illustrate their peculiarities. The mobile tentacles of the Sundews, the snapping lobes of the Venus Fly Trap, and the slippery, baited pitfalls of the Pitcher Plants seem the stuff of science fiction, yet these amazing plants do exist. Adrian Slack focuses on some fifty species, using photographs, line drawings, and diagrams to illustrate their peculiarities. He explores in detail the wily manner in which each type of plant entices, catches, and digests its prey.