Plant Love
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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“Delve into the world of botanical sex and the techniques plants use to reproduce.”
— Gardens Illustrated
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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.
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