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Fruit : edible, inedible, incredible / Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler ; edited & designed by Alexandra Papadakis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stuppy, Wolfgang, author.
- Kesseler, Rob, author, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fruit.
- Microscopy.
- Fruit--Pictorial works.
- Fruit--Seeds.
- Fruit--Microscopy.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Rafael, California : Earth Aware Editions, 2013.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Fleshy fruits
- The Millennium Seed Bank Project
- Lusciousness, the crafted image in a digital environment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1608872815
- 9781608872817
- OCLC:
- 828246541
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