| Description |
1 online resource (x, 528 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The quandary over plant sex -- The discovery of sex -- Crop domestication and gender -- Plant- female iconography in Neolithic Europe -- Sacred trees and enclosed gardens -- Mystic plants and Aegean nature goddesses -- The Plantheon of Greek mythology -- Plant sex from Empedocles to Theophrastus -- Roman assimilation of Greek myths and botany -- From herbals to walled gardens : plant gender and iconography -- Troubadours, romancing the rose, and the rebirth of naturalism -- The difficult birth of the two-sex model -- Plant nuptials in the Linnaean era -- Behind the green door : love and lust in eighteenth- century botany -- Wars of the roses : ideology versus experiment -- Idealism and asexualism in the age of Goethe -- Sex and the single cryptogam -- Flora's secret gardens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plants, Sex in -- Research -- History.
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Sexual dimorphism (Plants)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taiz, Lee, author
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| ISBN |
0190627727 (electronic bk.) |
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0190868678 |
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9780190627720 (electronic bk.) |
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9780190868673 |
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