Continuing our weekly selection of the very best titles available through NHBS:
Plant Galls
by Margaret Redfern
What?
The latest volume in the New Naturalists series takes on one of the more enigmatic aspects of botany.
Why?
Oak apples, robin’s pincushions, marble galls and witches’ brooms. Margaret Redfern’s expertise on the curious subject of plant galls, presented in this new volume in the New Naturalist series, opens a window onto a less considered aspect of botany. What are they? How are they formed? Here you will find insight into the organisms that cause plant galls, the structure and ecology of the galls themselves, and the effect these complex and diverse phenomena have on the host plants, as well as broader evolutionary and historical perspectives.
Margaret Redfern is an authority on plant galls who has written numerous books on the subject.
