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"Many plants are useful to humans. However, some plants are very harmful. Just by brushing up against some of these plants can cause a person to break out in an itchy rash. Others are only poisonous if eaten. Some of these poisonous plants can make us sick, while others are dangerous enough to kill us. Readers will learn about which plants are poisonous, what makes them poisonous, and where these plants are commonly found. Full-color photographs help...
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"Poisonous Plants introduces readers to poisonous plants from around the world and the ways in which they defend themselves. From poisonous berries to beautiful, luring flowers, readers will be fascinated with these plants' abilities to trick prey!"--Provided by the publisher.
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Introduces the reader to stinging plants, poisonous plants and plants that eat animals. Featured plants include the Venus Flytrap, an African tree that houses stinking ants to protect itself from hungry animals, a "vampire vine" that sucks nutrients from other plants, and fiendishly invasive kudzu.
11) Toxic Crops
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We've constantly fought a battle against weeds, disease, pests, and drought when growing crops, but the security of our food supply is now being threatened by rising levels of carbon dioxide. This video segment examines how rising CO2 levels will affect their metabolisms of fruit and vegetable crops and interviews scientists trying to predict what sort of problems we might encounter in the future.
12) Spiky plants
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"Plants might look harmless, but they can be killers. Some plants have huge thorns filled with stinging insects. Others can poke a person's skin with tiny poison daggers. This narrative nonfiction series features some of the most interesting--and dangerous--plants on the planet. Each book in this series includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and a feature on animal and plant mutualism"--Provided by...
13) Moongarden
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Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
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"Plants might look harmless, but they can be killers. Destructive plants can cover buildings, choke waterways, and release poisonous chemicals into the soil. This narrative nonfiction series features some of the most amazing-and destructive-plants on the planet"--Provided by publisher.
16) Poisonous plants
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"Plants might look harmless, but they can be killers. Some plants, like oleander, can stop a person's heart. Others destroy cells and cause organ failure"--Provided by publisher.