Fruit : edible, inedible, incredible /

Fruit : edible, inedible, incredible /

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Author / Creator:Stuppy, Wolfgang.
Imprint:Richmond Hill, Ont. ; Buffalo, NY : Firefly Books, 2008.
Description:264 p. : col. ill., port. ; 29 x 32 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Fruit -- Pictorial works.
Fruit.
Fruit -- Seeds.
Fruit -- Microscopy.
Fruit.
Fruit -- Seeds.
Pictorial works.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8068061
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Other authors / contributors:Papadakis, Alexandra.
Kesseler, Rob.
ISBN:9781554074051
1554074053
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 261) and index.
Summary:Examines why fruits exist and how their short lives are critical to the natural order. Features razor-sharp cross-sections by visual artist Rob Kesseler using special light and scanning electron microscopy to create astonishing images of a variety of fruits and the seeds they shelter.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Fruit - Edible, Inedible, Incredible
  • What is a Fruit
  • What is a fruit and what is a vegetable?
  • Angiosperms, Gymnosperms and those that copulate in secret
  • The naked-seeded ones
  • The non-naked-seeded ones
  • An abominable mystery
  • Angiosperm extremists
  • No Flower, no Fruit?
  • Is a pine cone a fruit?
  • No Carpel, no Fruit?
  • A shameless display
  • Not quite the ovary of Eve
  • Unwitting couriers
  • Wind, sex and gender separation
  • What's in a Fruit?
  • Babylonian confusion
  • Enhanced female performance
  • How to be a carpologist
  • The true meaning of fruits
  • Simple Fruits
  • The truth about berries
  • The miraculous miracle berry
  • Golden apples
  • Fragrant citrons
  • Buddha's hand
  • Sizeable pepos
  • Soft shell, hard core or how to be a drupe
  • Nuts about nuts
  • Walnuts or waldrupes?
  • Glans quercus
  • Two fruits in one - cashew nut and cashew apple
  • Wheat "grain" and sunflower "seed" - caryopsis and achene
  • Samaras - nuts gone airborne
  • Cypselas - achenes gone airborne
  • Pods and such like
  • Capsules or seven ways to open a fruit
  • Teeth, fissures, cracks and lids
  • Follicle and coccum
  • Pods as in "pea pods"
  • Sweet bean pods
  • The World's largest bean pod
  • Seeds in prison
  • Inside-out drupes
  • To be or not to be a drupe
  • Multiple Fruits - Several fruitlets from a single flower?
  • Schizocarpic Fruits or how to emulate the multiple experience
  • Anthocarpous Fruits - the carpologists' touchstone
  • Compound Fruits - A single fruit from several flowers?
  • The breadfruit and the Mutiny on the Bounty
  • The largest fruit a tree can bear
  • Figs, gnats and sycophants
  • Angiosperms with cones?
  • Carpological Troublemakers
  • Bogus fruits and how to debunk them
  • So what is a Fruit?
  • The biological function of fruits and seeds
  • Dispersal - The Many Ways to Get Around
  • Wind dispersal
  • Wings
  • Monoplanes
  • Flying discs
  • Spinning cylinders
  • Shuttlecocks
  • Woolly travellers
  • Love-in-a-puff and other balloon travellers
  • Anemoballism
  • Water dispersal
  • Dispersal by raindrops
  • Plants that do it for themselves
  • Hygroscopic tension
  • Hydraulic pressure
  • Animal Dispersal
  • Becoming attached
  • The story of the sadistic
  • Tribulus
  • In the claws of the devil
  • How to catch a bird
  • Dispersal by scatter-hoarders
  • Dispersal by ants
  • Combining Strategies
  • Directed Dispersal
  • Fleshy Fruits
  • The evolution of fleshy fruits
  • The good, the bad and the ugly, or why fruits are poisonous
  • Enough is as good as a feast
  • Young and dangerous
  • Climacteric fruits
  • One bad apple spoils the barrel
  • Dispersal syndromes, the sign-language of fruits
  • The bird-dispersal syndrome
  • How to catch the eye of a bird
  • Fleshy seeds
  • Flashy seeds
  • Dangerous beauty
  • Colourful appendages
  • Arillate seeds and the fate of New York
  • Dispersal by mammals
  • The bat dispersal syndrome
  • Monkey fruits - the primate-dispersal syndrome
  • Monkey apple
  • The Queen of Fruits
  • Cacao - food of the gods
  • The baobab
  • Durian - the King of Fruits
  • A big fruit needs a big mouth - the megafaunal dispersal syndrome
  • Africa's large mammals and their fruits
  • Sausages that grow on trees
  • Fruits that only elephants like
  • When the elephants are gone
  • The aardvark and its cucumber
  • Mallotus nudiflorus and the Indian rhinoceros
  • The nitre bush and emus
  • Galápagos tomatoes and giant tortoises
  • More inseparable couples
  • Till death do us part
  • The dodo and the tambalocoque - a textbook fairy tale
  • Anachronistic fruits
  • Size no longer matters
  • The largest fruit of America
  • Osage orange
  • How can it be true?
  • Where have all the mammoths gone?
  • The Millennium Seed Bank Project
  • Lusciousness - The Crafted Image in a Digital Environment
  • Appendices
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Plants illustrated
  • Footnotes
  • Picture Credits
  • Acknowledgments
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