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008 090211s2009 ncua b 000 0 eng
010 _a2009006192
020 _a9781565126831
020 _a1565126831
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050 0 0 _aQK100.A1
_bS74 2009
082 0 0 _a581.6/5
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100 1 _aStewart, Amy.
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245 1 0 _aWicked plants :
_bthe weed that killed Lincoln's mother & other botanical atrocities /
_cAmy Stewart ; etchings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs ; illustrations by Jonathon Rosen.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aChapel Hill, N.C. :
_bAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
_c2009.
300 _axvii, 235, [1] p. :
_bill. ;
_c19 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-[236])
505 0 _aAconite -- Arrow poisons -- Ayahuasca vine and chacruna -- Betel nut -- Castor bean -- Ordeal poisons -- Coca -- Coyotillo -- Deadly nightshade -- Death camas -- Deadly dinner -- Ergot -- Fatal fungus -- Habanero chili -- Henbane -- The Devil's bartender -- Iboga -- Jimson weed -- Botanical crime families -- Khat -- Killer algae -- Ragweed -- Kudzu -- Lawn of death -- Mala mujer -- Here comes the sun -- Manchineel tree -- Don't look now -- Mandrake -- Marijuana -- Oleander -- Forbidden garden -- Opium poppy -- Dreadful bouquet -- Peacock flower -- Peyote cactus -- Psychedelic plants -- Poison hemlock -- Purple loosestrife -- Weeds of mass destruction -- Ratbane -- Rosary pea -- The terrible toxicodendrons -- Sago palm -- More than one way to skin a cat -- Stinging tree -- Meet the nettles -- Strychnine tree -- Suicide tree -- Carnivores -- Tobacco -- Toxic blue-green algae -- Duck and cover -- Water hemlock -- Water hyacinth -- Social misfits -- Whistling thorn acacia -- White snakeroot -- Yew -- Poison gardens.
520 _aStewart takes on more than 200 of Mother Nature's most appalling creations and offers this A-to-Z compendium of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend.
650 0 _aPoisonous plants.
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650 0 _aDangerous plants.
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650 1 2 _aPlants, Toxic
_xclassification
_vPopular Works.
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700 1 _aMorrow-Cribbs, Briony.
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700 1 _aRosen, Jonathon.
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2009006192-d.html
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