An edition of Fruit
(2013)
Fruit
edible, inedible, incredible
by Wolfgang Stuppy
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Examines why fruits exist and how their short lives are critical to the natural order. Features razor-sharp cross-sections by visual artist Rob Kesseler using special light and scanning electron microscopy to create astonishing images of a variety of fruits and the seeds they shelter.
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Seeds, Fruit, Microscopy, Pictorial works| Edition | Availability |
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Book Details
Table of Contents
What is a fruit?
What is a fruit and what is a vegetable?
Angiosperms, gymnosperms and those that copulate in secret
No flower, no fruit?
No carpel, no fruit?
What's in a fruit?
Simple fruits
Multiple fruits, several fruitlets from a single flower?
Schizocarpic fruits or how to emulate the multiple experience
Anthocarpous fruits, the carpologists' touchstone
Compound fruits, a single fruit from several flowers?
Carpological troublemakers
So what is a fruit?
Dispersal, the many ways to get around
Animal dispersal
Combing strategies
Directed dispersal
Fleshy fruits
The Millennium Seed Bank Project
Lusciousness, the crafted image in a digital environment.
Edition Notes
Originally pub.: Great Britain: Papadakis Publisher, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261) and index.
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