Flowers. Natural history

Flowers are aesthetic climax of plant life. In all the incredible variety of their colors and forms, they decorate fields and meadows, gardens and parks, turning earthly expanses into colorful landscapes. There is nothing more exciting than looking at them closer, because behind their beauty there are amazing natural mechanisms that sometimes intrigue stronger than any thriller.
Features of the evolution of flowering plants, the structure, or “architecture”, flowers, the geometry of inflorescences, the symmetry and the Fibonacci code in relation to flowering plants, the reproductive system and the pollination process, the symbols of flowers, use in heraldry - this book does not leave questions without an answer . On its pages, complex processes standing behind the cycles of flowering and wilting are revealed, and the relationship of colors with representatives of the animal world is also described. An informative story of a German researcher, biologist, teacher and journalist Bruno Kremra and the illustrations worthy of special admiration - before you is a comprehensive natural history of colors, accepting both biological and cultural aspects. A great gift for everyone who is interested in plants