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humidity, 10 mucilage, 34, 43 Raffles, Thomas, 21
Hurley, Marina, 41 mushrooms, 49–50 Rafflesia, 21–22
hydrostatic (fluid) pressure, 65 music, plants in, 78 rainfall, 10, 60
mutation, 7 rain forests, 10, 26, 41, 43, 46–47,
indigenous peoples, 42, 53, 71, 80 mycorrhizae, 11 79, 81–83
inflorescence, 20 myths, 78 rattan, 38
insects, 5–7, 11–13, 19, 21–24, redwood trees, 73
28–35, 38–40, 44–45, Namib Desert, 58 reproduction, 5, 7, 11–18, 48, 63
47–48, 50, 52–53, 72 natural selection, 7 asexual, 14–16, 48, 64
bees, 13, 24, 30, 44–45 nectar, 13, 24, 29–31 clonal, 64
beetles, 20, 24, 39, 72 nettles, 41, 46–47 sexual, 11, 48
flies, 26, 31–32 ninjas, 5, 19, 21, 24, 36, 41, 44, 46, reproductive cells, 11–12, 26, 32
plants that eat, 28–35 54, 62, 65, 67, 70, 85 respiration, 16–18, 23
nitrogen, 6, 17, 28–30, 71, 80
International Space Station, 64 North America, 24–25, 49, 51, resurrection fern, 59–60
invasive species, 72 roses, 8
59, 76
jabuticaba tree, 50 nutrients, 9–11, 16–17, 23–24, sap, 40, 42, 53, 76
jack pine, 72–73 26, 28–31, 37, 42–43, 49, scientific plant names. See
jumping plants, 63, 68 53, 59, 66–67, 71, 74 binomial nomenclature
seed dispersal, 6, 14, 18, 26–27,
labellum, 32 odor strategies, 11, 20–27 41–42, 65, 72–73
laws concerning plants, 67, 72 On the Origin of Species seeds, 6–7, 9, 12–14, 18, 24–27,
leaves, 10, 16–19, 29–31, 33–38, (Darwin), 7 37, 41, 42–43, 50–51, 62,
40–42, 47–48, 53, 58–60, orchids, 5, 32, 44–46, 52–53 66–68, 70–74
62, 67–68, 74, 76 flying duck, 32 sensitive plant, 67–68
lichens, 60, 65 laughing bumblebee, 5, 45 serotinous plants, 73
Linnaeus, Carolus, 8 monkey face, 53 sessile, 62
literature, plants in, 78 tongue, 46 skunk cabbage, 5, 24–25
lithops, 6 pampas grass, 75 slobber weed, 40
locomotion in plants, 62–69 smoke, 41, 73–74
paperbark tree, 71–72
male flower parts, 11–12, 14, parasitic plants, 6, 25, 43, 65–66 soil, 4–6, 9–11, 14, 16–17, 24–25,
21–23, 52 permafrost, 65 28–30, 49–50, 54, 59,
manzanita, 70 phloem tissue, 88 71–74, 80, 82
Meatless Monday, 81 photosynthesis, 9–11, 16–18, solifluction floating, 65
medicine plants, 53, 76, 81 29–30, 66–67 South America, 42, 47, 50–51, 53,
Mesopotamia, 78 pitcher plants, 31, 33 60–61, 67, 75
mesquite tree, 58 Plants vs. Zombies, 77 Southeast Asia, 20–21, 36, 75
Mexican jumping bean, 68 poison plants, 9, 36, 38–43, 51 spores, 26, 48–49
Middle East, 15, 58, 78 pollen, 9, 11–14, 21–23, 32, squirting cucumber, 43
migration, 9 45–46, 52, 62 steroids, 18
milkweed, 14 pollination, 5, 7, 11–13, 19, 32, 48 sticky plants, 11, 22, 25–26, 29,
mimicry, 44–53 abiotic, 13 32–34, 72, 74
minerals in soil, 9–10, 16–17, pollinators, 16, 27, 29, 44–45, stinky-smelling plants, 11, 20–27
28, 72 50–53 strangler fig, 6, 43, 65
mistletoe, 25 popular culture, plants in, 76–78 sundews, 33–34
mitosis, 14 Pouyanne, Maurice-Alexandre, sunflowers, 68–69
monoculture, 80 44, 52 sunlight, 9–10, 16–17, 38, 40,
mosses, 65 propagation, clonal, 64 58–60, 62, 68–69, 74
mountains, 53–54, 60 pseudocopulation, 32, 44 survival strategies, 9–11, 18–19,
movies, plants in, 77–78 Pythagoras, 78 37, 42, 44, 48, 52, 56,
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