Wicked Plants

wickedplantssmDate: Friday, June 4
Time: 7:30
Admission: $5.00

Observatory presents an illustrated lecture and reading with author Amy Stewart on her New York Times Bestseller Wicked Plants; The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities. Recently named the winner of the 2010 American Horticultural Society Book Award, and “drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.”

“A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. ”

Wicked Plants will be available for purchase at the event by Word Bookstore, and copies can be purchased prior to the event on Word’s Website.

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