Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Algonquin Books, May 2009. Hardcover. Beware! Wicked Plants explores the dark side of the plant world, including plants that murder, mangle, maim and intoxicate. A new copy. A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles;.....