Vegetable Teratology

A nineteenth-century work of botanical science devoted to the abnormal and monstrous forms plants can take.

At a glance It surveys the malformations and deviations of growth that reveal how the ordinary… Nature does not always follow its own rules, and the exceptions can be as instructive as… Vegetable Teratology belongs to a rich Victorian tradition of naturalists who studied… What it's about The book is a systematic account of teratology in plants, that is, the…

The book is a systematic account of teratology in plants, that is, the study of abnormal, deviant or monstrous forms of vegetable growth.