Plants That Kill: A Natural History Of The World’s Most Poisonous Plants

This book uses a combination of text, photographs, diagrams and chemical structures to create a fascinating picture of how and why plants – mainly flowering

ELIZABETH A. DAUNCY & SONNY LARSSON. 2018. Plants That Kill: A Natural History of the World's Most. Poisonous Plants. (ISBN-13: 978-0-691-17876-9, hbk

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This may mean changing the way that cells or molecules function, or preventing natural processes from happening. Poisons may stop organs from functioning, or