Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities

Amy Stewart with Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator)

235 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history nature reference informative medium-paced
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A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appall...

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informative 100%
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lighthearted 13%
funny 12%
relaxing 8%
adventurous 5%
reflective 2%

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slow 16%

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