World¿s most famous and interesting plants - HAQUE, Dr. M. S.
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The book contains 19 chapters dealing with various aspects of fascinating plants like The secret life of plants; Plants associated with important discoveries and personalities like Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of law of gravitation while sitting under an apple tree, which is still surviving in England; Pea plant by which Gregor Johann Mendel discovered the law of inheritance; The costliest plants; The strangest plants; Flowers of the plants that look like animals, insects and people; The carnivorous plants that can eat small insects and digest too; The oxygen producing plants; The edible nuts;…mehr

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The book contains 19 chapters dealing with various aspects of fascinating plants like The secret life of plants; Plants associated with important discoveries and personalities like Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of law of gravitation while sitting under an apple tree, which is still surviving in England; Pea plant by which Gregor Johann Mendel discovered the law of inheritance; The costliest plants; The strangest plants; Flowers of the plants that look like animals, insects and people; The carnivorous plants that can eat small insects and digest too; The oxygen producing plants; The edible nuts; The most expensive fruits and leaves; The famous exotic trees; The religious trees; The avenue trees;Bamboo and lucky bamboo;The living fossils like the most fascinating Maidenhair tree;The plants with beautiful flowers like nature's poet Wordsworth's Daffodils, Cherry and Tulips;The people's beverage tree like Tea, which is used as an energy drink throughout the world;The spices like nutmeg, world's hottest chilly;The adaptogenic herbs; The discovery of new plants and naming of a new species after Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and the only plant species that had evolved recently on earth.
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After graduating from Calcutta University in Biology in 1969 Dr. M. S. Haque obtained Ph. D in Plant sciences in 1978. Same year, he joined Forest Research Institute and then in 1984 joined National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mumbai as Forest Officer and retired in 2010 as Head, Forestry. He is widely travelled in India and abroad.