Dr. M. S. HAQUE
The book contains 19 chapters dealing with various aspects of fascinating plants like The secret life of plants; Plants associated with important discoveries and personalities like Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of law of gravitation while sitting under an apple tree, which is still surviving in England; Pea plant by which Gregor Johann Mendel discovered the law of inheritance; The costliest plants; The strangest plants; Flowers of the plants that look like animals, insects and people; The carnivorous plants that can eat small insects and digest too; The oxygen producing plants; The edible nuts; The most expensive fruits and leaves; The famous exotic trees; The religious trees; The avenue trees;Bamboo and lucky bamboo;The living fossils like the most fascinating Maidenhair tree;The plants with beautiful flowers like nature’s poet Wordsworth’s Daffodils, Cherry and Tulips;The people’s beverage tree like Tea, which is used as an energy drink throughout the world;The spices like nutmeg, world’s hottest chilly;The adaptogenic herbs; The discovery of new plants and naming of a new species after Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and the only plant species that had evolved recently on earth.