Darwin’s Most Wonderful Plants
A Tour of His Botanical Legacy
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Chapter 1: Room at the Top: On the movements and habits of climbing plants (1865)
Chapter 2: Slow Learners: The power of movement in plants (1880)
Chapter 3: The Biter Bit: Insectivorous plants (1875)
Chapter 4: Sex and the Single Plant: On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing (1862); The effects of cross and self-fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom (1876); The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species (1877)
Chapter 5: The Mysteries of the Cabbage Patch: The variation of animals and plants under domestication (1868)
Afterword
Sources
Photo Credits
Thanks
Index
Biological Sciences: Botany | Natural History | Physiology, Biomechanics, and Morphology
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