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A Garden of Marvels by Ruth Kassinger

A Garden of Marvels

How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

by Ruth Kassinger
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  • Feb 25, 2014, 416 pages
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  • Mar 2015, 416 pages
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