商品簡介
This inventive introduction to the plant world combines facts about basic botany, fun with silly characters, and surprising information.
Imagine if plants had superhero abilities. According to Spike E. Prickles, a TV personality who happens to be a cactus, they do--and his houseplant fans agree! From growing spines to hunting insects to surviving numbing cold and stifling heat, Spike highlights the impressive range of adaptations plants have developed.
作者簡介
LOREEN LEEDY is the author of 2 X 2=Boo, Seeing Symmetry, Amazing Plant Powers: How Plants Fly, Fight, Hide, Hunt and Change the World, and many more. Her books have been ALA Notable books, Kirkus Reviews Best Books, and Booklist Editors Choices.
DR. ANDREW SCHUERGER is a research professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida. His office and lab are in the Space Life Sciences Lab at the Kennedy Space Center, where he studies Mars astrobiology and plant-pathogen interactions.
