Plant Love

Name: Plant Love
ISBN: 9780993389221

The Scandalous Truth About the Sex Life of Plants

By Michael Allaby

Get ready for the scandalous truth about botanical sex. Who knew that bee orchids trick insects into having sex with them, avocado flowers are female one day and male the next, and some flowers are the insect equivalent of nightclubs where males and females meet and mate? Bestselling popular science author Michael Allaby reveals over 200 of nature’s most unseemly creations in this sensational exposé.

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What reviewers said.

What secret raunchiness is going on in your garden without your knowledge? No, the doggers haven’t come to town, it’s the plants that are getting naughty in this light-hearted botanical volume, packed with delightful illustrations.

— Prudence Ivey, Ham & High
Delve into the world of botanical sex and discover the techniques used by plants to enter into unseemly liaisons to reproduce and survive.

— Gardens Illustrated
The sex life of plants did not top my list of “things one is curious about

About the author

Michael Allaby

Michael Allaby (1933–2025) edited Span magazine for the Soil Association through the late 1960s and was associate editor of The Ecologist in the early 1970s, before turning freelance in 1973 and producing, over the following half-century, more than a hundred books on ecology, weather, climate and the wider environmental sciences. His Oxford dictionaries — Ecology, Zoology, Plant Sciences, Earth Sciences — became standard single-volume references in their fields.

Plant Love

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