Flowers & mushrooms

Create your own vibrantand sustainablebotanical prints with 20 flower-pounding projects.Suitable for crafters of all levels. You can make beautiful, colorful and ...

On the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to help. Phenology is a...

Chapter one describes “The Quandary Over Plant Sex” in its historical context. The sexual role of pollen wasn’t discovered until the late 17th century, suggesting a deep cultural b...

Millions of years before humans appeared, amber preserved delicate fungal communities that would otherwise have vanished without a trace. In this richly illustrated volume, George ...

This chapter focuses on a single flower scent—the tuberose—strongly associated with the fragrance of Victorian decadence. Contrasting with the more delicate scent of the violet exp...

Learn the engaging art of Japanese sumi painting, where simple sweeps of the brush capture the essence of nature. The Japanese art tradition of Sumi-e uses brushes and in...

During the latter half of the eighteenth century, opposition to the sexual theory intensified among social and religiously conservative asexualists who felt threatened by the polit...