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Flower Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Floral Lives
By Knapp, Sandra
- ISBN
- 9780226834528
- Publisher
- Univ. of Chicago
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Reviewed on March 1, 2025 | Science & Technology
Knapp, a senior research botanist at the Natural History Museum, London, offers a lovely series of essays on and appreciations of the flower, using the conceit that the biologist Linnaeus suggested—creating a flower clock. Starting with the moonflower at midnight and traveling around the clock to the giant saguaro at 11 p.m., Knapp, with the aid of artist Katie Scott (Animalium; Botanicum), describes 24 plants in the order...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
