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Flora unveiled : the discovery and denial of sex in plants / Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz.
LIBRA QK827 .T35 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taiz, Lincoln.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants, Sex in--Research--History.
- Plants, Sex in.
- Sexual dimorphism (Plants).
- Research.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 528 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- The quandary over plant sex
- The discovery of sex
- Crop domestication and gender
- Plant- female iconography in Neolithic Europe
- Sacred trees and enclosed gardens
- Mystic plants and Aegean nature goddesses
- The Plantheon of Greek mythology
- Plant sex from Empedocles to Theophrastus
- Roman assimilation of Greek myths and botany
- From herbals to walled gardens : plant gender and iconography
- Troubadours, romancing the rose, and the rebirth of naturalism
- The difficult birth of the two-sex model
- Plant nuptials in the Linnaean era
- Behind the green door : love and lust in eighteenth- century botany
- Wars of the roses : ideology versus experiment
- Idealism and asexualism in the age of Goethe
- Sex and the single cryptogam
- Flora's secret gardens.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190490263
- 0190490268
- OCLC:
- 959596384
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