Mr. Hohn presents carefully selected examples of interesting pollination mechanisms, opening times of various flowers, Linne's floral clock, humming birds and bats as pollinators, ecologically and physiologically specialized groups of plants such as epiphytes, halophytes, rootless plants, parasites, and saprophytes, as well as magic plants, witches' plants, and poisonous plants. Finally the author deals with the "fossil book of nature", showing that the present plant cover of the early is the result of a development of many millions of years.

An introduction to the world of plants and how and where they grow.