Fruit : edible, inedible, incredible / Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler ; edited & designed by Alexandra Papadakis.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Stuppy, Wolfgang, author.
• Kesseler, Rob, author, photographer.

Contributor:

• Papadakis, Alexandra, editor.

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