Natural history
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Books & Blooms: Flower aficionados cultivate their bookselves as well as their gardens. One writer lists her perennial favorites.
págs. 16-18
Pozzuoli's Pillars Revisited: Even the best of geological theories can be pushed to explain too much.
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Early Bloomers: A clay pit in coastal New Jersey holds the world's richest trove of fossil flowers.
págs. 40-41
What's So Special About Flowers?: Fertilization is so nice, they do it twice.
págs. 42-45
Floral Arrangements: Geneticists are studying the ABCs of building a blossom.
págs. 46-47
Sun Stalkers: Solar-tracking flowers bend from the waist.
págs. 48-51
Fitting the Bill?: Some curvaceous flowers engage pollinators in an arms race.
págs. 52-55
Life in Bloom: Every flowering plant has to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em.
Richard B. Primack, Stephen Myers (fot.)
págs. 56-59
The Blackest Flower in the World: Between a rutted road and a burned field in Mexico, scientists find.
págs. 60-63
At Risk: The beautiful swamp pink is one of seven hundred species of flowering plants that the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife lists as endangered or threatened.
págs. 64-67
On the Trail of a Scent: One scientist's discoveries about a flower's fragrance may become another's... Obsession.
págs. 68-72
Opening Sequence: People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy whole time to have such things about us.
Irish Murdoch, Claude Nuridsany (fot.), Marie Perennou (fot.)
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A Rosy Repast: On a magical evening, a bouquet becomes a banquet.
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