COVER TO COVER
WEIRD PLANTS
With undisguised glee, Oxford University botanist Chris Thorogood guides us through the weird, wild underworld of fantastical flora, “a world in which plants trick, dupe, steal and even kill”. His lively text and colourful, hyper-real paintings depict the bizarre, beastly and just plain bad, including carnivores like pitcher plants and the Venus flytrap as well as, the world’s largest flower, and that oddball on the cover, , which mimics the smell of rotting flesh or faeces to attract pollinators. The overall effect is reminiscent of a sci-fi horror movie — all that’s missing are the triffids.
