Wars were fought over the valuable nutmeg. Using peppermint, Joseph Priestley conducted groundbreaking experiments on “tainted air.” And the burdock inspired George de Mestral to create Velcro. The artfully designed book “What a Pine Tree Is” contains true and fictional scenes from the history of 20 plants and provides information about their properties. Petra Wiemann
Lucia Jay von Seldeneck, Florian Weiß
What a pine tree is
Stories from the botanical world
art instigator, 132 p., € 30,–
ISBN 978-3-948743-37-6