Big Bad Book of Botany-Michael Largo with Scott Cluthe on P I Radio
b'Join Scott Cluthe on FACEBOOK HERE\\xa0\\n\\nJoin the\\xa0Free Newsletter for Positively Incorrect ! HERE\\n\\nLive 2 Nite @ 8 PM EST Michael Largo joins Scott Cluthe to talk about his latest book.\\xa0\\n\\nDavid Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo\\u2019s entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world\\u2019s most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore.\\n\\nThe Big, Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a person to stone. Others have been used by assassins to kill kings, and sorcerers to revive the dead. Here, too, is vegetation with astonishing properties to cure and heal, many of which have long since been lost with the advent of modern medicine.\\n\\nOrganized alphabetically, The Big, Bad Book of Botany combines the latest in biological information with bizarre facts about the plant kingdom\\u2019s oddest members, including a species that is more poisonous than a cobra and a prehistoric plant that actually \\u201cwalked.\\u201d Largo takes you through the history of vegetables and fruits and their astonishing agricultural evolution. Throughout, he reveals astonishing facts, from where the world\\u2019s first tree grew to whether plants are telepathic.\\n\\nFeaturing more than 150 photographs and illustrations, The Big, Bad Book of Botany is a fascinating, fun A-to-Z encyclopedia for all ages that will transform the way we look at the natural world.'