Examines Why Fruits Exist And How Their Short Lives Are Critical To The Natural Order. Features Razor-sharp Cross-sections By Visual Artist Rob Kesseler Using Special Light And Scanning Electron Microscopy To Create Astonishing Images Of A Variety Of Fruits And The Seeds They Shelter. What Is A Fruit? What Is A Fruit And What Is A Vegetable? ; Angiosperms, Gymnosperms And Those That Copulate In Secret ; No Flower, No Fruit? ; No Carpel, No Fruit? ; What's In A Fruit? ; Simple Fruits ; Multiple Fruits: Several Fruitlets From A Single Flower? ; Schizocarpic Fruits Or How To Emulate The Multiple Experience ; Anthocarpous Fruits: The Carpologists' Touchstone ; Compound Fruits: A Single Fruit From Several Flowers? ; Carpological Troublemakers ; So What Is A Fruit? -- Dispersal: The Many Ways To Get Around. Animal Dispersal ; Combing Strategies ; Directed Dispersal ; -- The Millennium Seed Bank Project -- Lusciousness: The Crafted Image In A Digital Environment. Wolfgang Stuppy And Rob Kesseler ; Edited By Alexandra Papadakis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Categories:
- Science & Math
- Nature & Ecology
- Plants
- Nature & Ecology
Publisher : Firefly Books
Author : Kesseler, Rob,Stuppy, Wolfgang
Language : English
Published :2008-10-10
Number Of Pages : 264
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1554074053
ISBN-13 : 9781554074051
Item weight : 4.8 lb
Dimensions : 1 in x 10.6 in x 12.4 in
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