This beautifully illustrated encyclopedia takes inquisitive children and adult readers on an exciting journey into the realm of plants. Its wide variety of residents - trees, grass, water, mountains, tropical and other plants - here are presented in short texts, and especially clearly shown on more than one thousand illustrations. Have you ever wondered why some flowers eat insects? How cactus stores water? Why do some orchids smell like rotten meat? Why are healthy tree can defend bark beetles, but not weakened? All this and much more you can learn from this book, which presents the plants in a broader context, while detailed and love.