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By Peter Bernhardt

Zeus, Medusa, Hercules, Aphrodite. do you know that those and different dynamic deities, heroes, and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology live to tell the tale within the names of timber and vegetation? a few develop on your neighborhood woodlands or correct on your personal yard garden.
 
In this pleasant booklet, botanist Peter Bernhardt unearths the wealthy background and mythology that underlie the origins of many clinical plant names. in contrast to different books approximately botanical taxonomy that take the shape of heavy and intimidating lexicons, Bernhardt's account comes jointly in a sequence of interlocking tales. every one bankruptcy opens with a quick model of a classical delusion, then hyperlinks the story to plant names, exhibiting how every one plant "resembles" its mythological counterpart with reference to its historical past, anatomy, existence cycle, and conservation. you are going to research, for instance, that as our backyard acanthus wears nasty spines alongside its leaf margins, it's named for the nymph who scratched the face of Apollo. The shape-shifting god, Proteus, offers his identify to a complete family members of shrubs and bushes that produce colourful flowering branches in an magnificent variety of sizes and shapes.
 
Amateur gardeners, highschool academics and professors of biology, botanists and conservationists alike will savor this book's exciting and informative access to the in a different way daunting box of botanical names. enticing, witty, and remarkable, Gods and Goddesses within the backyard transcends the style of normal background and makes taxonomy a subject both at domestic within the lecture room and at cocktail parties.

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