Green Kingdom: A Family History of Plants

A captivating exploration of the weird ways plants have found to survive and thrive, from the earliest mosses to the most fragrant orchids and toxic cycads, for fans of The Light Eaters, The Serviceberry, and The Invention of Nature.

Nearly four hundred thousand species of plants exist today, but many more have come and gone. What made these ones survive? Through the stories of sixteen plant families responsible for life’s great innovations, Green Kingdom tells the epic tale of how plant-lif...