Published by Time Life UK. Hardcover, 256 pages. Pre-owned in excellent condition.
Some 400 million years ago plants first began to establish themselves on earth. It is estimated that the lant surfaces of the world are covered in a mantle of at least 303,000 species of plant life, two-thirds of which are the flowering plants with which we are most familiar. We can no longer afford to underestimate the extent of our dependence upon plants - they under pin almost all life on Earth.
