Best Popular Botany Books on Goodreads

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,543 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World 4.06 avg rating — 58,656 ratings
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Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers 4.38 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,791 ratings
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities 3.82 avg rating — 10,913 ratings
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Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,907 ratings
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History 4.10 avg rating — 3,014 ratings
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The Orchid Thief
The Orchid Thief 3.67 avg rating — 21,223 ratings
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Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
by: Bill Laws
3.68 avg rating — 777 ratings
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska
Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska
by: Jim Pojar
4.57 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
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The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man 3.97 avg rating — 3,248 ratings
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The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,239,077 ratings
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Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants
Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants 4.49 avg rating — 558 ratings
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The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species
The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species 4.03 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
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Biology of Plants
Biology of Plants 4.09 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Stalking the Wild Asparagus
Stalking the Wild Asparagus 4.22 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region 4.35 avg rating — 719 ratings
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The Tulip
The Tulip 3.39 avg rating — 411 ratings
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The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species 4.01 avg rating — 120,198 ratings
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Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening 4.04 avg rating — 2,943 ratings
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The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants 4.43 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
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The Man Who Planted Trees
The Man Who Planted Trees 4.19 avg rating — 18,627 ratings
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The Signature of All Things
The Signature of All Things 3.88 avg rating — 122,758 ratings
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Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World From "Bird and Moon"
Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World From "Bird and Moon" 4.32 avg rating — 770 ratings
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The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks 4.02 avg rating — 10,453 ratings
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Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families
Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families 4.45 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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Botany for Gardeners
Botany for Gardeners 4.21 avg rating — 1,372 ratings
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses 4.04 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature 3.83 avg rating — 951 ratings
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses 4.38 avg rating — 18,784 ratings
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The Private Life of Plants
The Private Life of Plants 4.44 avg rating — 714 ratings
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The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession 4.22 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees (Seeing Series)
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees (Seeing Series) 4.27 avg rating — 499 ratings
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The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter 3.95 avg rating — 2,033 ratings
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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History 4.05 avg rating — 636 ratings
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The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination
The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination 3.75 avg rating — 948 ratings
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Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary 4.52 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored
Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored 4.23 avg rating — 230 ratings
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring 4.12 avg rating — 8,854 ratings
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Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education 3.93 avg rating — 8,991 ratings
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Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers 3.97 avg rating — 1,517 ratings
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Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind
Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind 3.82 avg rating — 621 ratings
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The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora
The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora 3.73 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Botanicum
Botanicum 4.59 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants
The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants 3.99 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology
Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology 4.01 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors 4.06 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives 3.68 avg rating — 510 ratings
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A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants
A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants 3.85 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide 4.49 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation 4.01 avg rating — 1,821 ratings
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A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and north-central United States and southeastern and south-central Canada
A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and north-central United States and southeastern and south-central Canada 4.13 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Oaxaca Journal
Oaxaca Journal 3.87 avg rating — 2,455 ratings
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest 4.28 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,490 ratings
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How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do
How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do 4.22 avg rating — 480 ratings
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Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens 4.45 avg rating — 3,472 ratings
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The Trees in My Forest
The Trees in My Forest 4.12 avg rating — 1,181 ratings
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World 4.41 avg rating — 3,298 ratings
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A Natural History Of North American Trees
A Natural History Of North American Trees 4.37 avg rating — 198 ratings
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An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds
An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds 3.86 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
by: Mike Dash
3.66 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
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The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic 3.92 avg rating — 5,279 ratings
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A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs
A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs 4.41 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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The Overstory
The Overstory 4.12 avg rating — 186,038 ratings
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The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants 4.58 avg rating — 708 ratings
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Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence 3.90 avg rating — 2,790 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications 4.71 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast
Bark: A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast 4.51 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate 4.34 avg rating — 601 ratings
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How a Seed Grows (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1, 1)
How a Seed Grows (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1, 1) 3.92 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Mushrooms Demystified
Mushrooms Demystified 4.55 avg rating — 1,094 ratings
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The Metamorphosis of Plants
The Metamorphosis of Plants 4.06 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft 4.54 avg rating — 825 ratings
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The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats 3.94 avg rating — 3,596 ratings
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic 4.03 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature 4.24 avg rating — 4,225 ratings
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Introductory Plant Biology
Introductory Plant Biology 3.75 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem 4.25 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Plant Physiology, 4th Edition
Plant Physiology, 4th Edition 4.24 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Amazing Rare Things
Amazing Rare Things 4.09 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Native American Ethnobotany
Native American Ethnobotany 4.70 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Oak: The Frame of Civilization
Oak: The Frame of Civilization 3.97 avg rating — 437 ratings
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A Peterson Field Guide To Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America
A Peterson Field Guide To Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-central North America 4.28 avg rating — 319 ratings
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A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America 4.34 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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A Tree Is a Plant (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1)
A Tree Is a Plant (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 1) 3.79 avg rating — 208 ratings
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A Seed Is Sleepy
A Seed Is Sleepy 4.36 avg rating — 2,079 ratings
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by: Kim Todd
3.88 avg rating — 444 ratings
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A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic, and Economic Properties, Cultivation, and Folklore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses
A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic, and Economic Properties, Cultivation, and Folklore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses 4.38 avg rating — 302 ratings
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For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink 3.78 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
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The Sibley Guide to Trees
The Sibley Guide to Trees 4.43 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World 3.81 avg rating — 5,281 ratings
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The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth
The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth 4.41 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid
Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid
by: Tim Ecott
3.69 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers
Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers 3.97 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Botany For Dummies
Botany For Dummies 3.87 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Botany Coloring Book
The Botany Coloring Book 4.33 avg rating — 116 ratings
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The Tulip
The Tulip 3.39 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom
Flora: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Plant Kingdom 4.70 avg rating — 213 ratings
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