Bibliograph

Fruit, edible, inedible, incredible, Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler ; edited by Alexandra Papadakis

Type

Label

Fruit, edible, inedible, incredible, Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler ; edited by Alexandra Papadakis

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 261) and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fruit

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

212430413

Responsibility statement

Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler ; edited by Alexandra Papadakis

Sub title

edible, inedible, incredible

Summary

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

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 ; -- THE millennium seed bank project -- Lusciousness: the crafted image in a digital environment

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