Plants and Fungi: The Definitive Visual Guide

Plants & Fungi is a comprehensive, accessible guide to the world's key plant and fungus species, covering all main groups and their ecological, economic, and cultural importance. It explores their growth and reproduction, adaptation to different continents, and beauty and diversity, while celebrating the world's more unusual and intriguing species.

Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 05 September 2024
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Plants & Fungi is a comprehensive, accessible, and lavishly illustrated guide to the world's key plant and fungus species. Written by specialist experts, the book explores the spectacular diversity of plants and fungi, their ecosystems, symbiotic relationships, and their use in various aspects of life, from food to clothing and medicine. It covers all of the main groups, from wildflowers to rainforest giants, and from lichens to predatory species, revealing the ways in which they have evolved to adapt to every continent on Earth, even in the harshest of conditions. The book celebrates the beauty and diversity of plants and fungi, and tells the story of the world's more unusual and intriguing species.

Weight: 2216g
Dimension: 360 x 303 x 46 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241634813