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- Title
Book Reviews: Book Review Editor, Wendy L. Applequist.
- Authors
Applequist, W.
- Abstract
With a greatly updated nomenclature and many new species additions (only 41% of the terminal taxa here are found unchanged in the first edition), this book will be an essential reference for any botanist working with plants of the Pacific Northwest. The myths employed to shape the author's arguments often bring out the themes of plant-human kinship as well as plant sentience, the prevailing threads throughout the book. Though the concept of plants as kin to humans or that of plant sentience may be beyond what many of us are able (or willing) to grasp, the book's greatest strength is the comparative perspective on plants that it provides through the extensive intercultural library it creates within its pages. Despite these two detracting features, the book serves as an excellent and interesting volume on plants in myths from around the world.
- Subjects
BOOK editors; POISONOUS plants; USEFUL plants; GEOGRAPHIC boundaries; PERMACULTURE; TRADITIONAL farming; MEDICAL marijuana; MARIJUANA dispensaries
- Publication
Economic Botany, 2019, Vol 73, Issue 4, p530
- ISSN
0013-0001
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1007/s12231-019-09484-x