Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy

by Chad Arment (Editor)

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Flora Curiosa compiles twenty classic botanical (and mycological) short stories from science fiction and fantasy. Stories include Rappaccini's Daughter (Hawthorne), The American's Tale (Doyle), The Man-Eating Tree (Robinson), The Balloon Tree (Mitchell), The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (H. G. Wells), The Treasure in the Forest (H. G. Wells), The Purple Pileus (H. G. Wells), The Purple Terror (White), A Vine on a House (Bierce), Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant (Garis), The Willows show more (Blackwood), The Voice in the Night (Hodgson), The Orchid Horror (Blunt), The Man Whom the Trees Loved (Blackwood), The Pavilion (Nesbit), The Sumach (Daubeny), The Green Death (McNeile), Si Urag of the Tail (Cook), Green Thoughts (Collier), and The Walk to Lingham (Dunsany). show less

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Bierce, Ambrose (Contributor)
Blackwood, Algernon (Contributor)
Blunt, John (Contributor)
Collier, John (Contributor)
Cook, Oscar (Contributor)
Daubeny, Ulric (Contributor)
Doyle, Arthur Conan (Contributor)
Dunsany, Lord (Contributor)
Garis, Howard R. (Contributor)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Contributor)
Hodgson, William Hope (Contributor)
McNeile, HC (Contributor)
Mitchell, Edward Page (Contributor)
Nesbit, E. (Contributor)
Robinson, Phil. (Contributor)
Wells, HG (Contributor)
White, Fred M. (Contributor)

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Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy
Original title
Flora Curiosa
Original publication date
2008-08

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Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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