The love life of plants-Fleur Daugey

Green love
The love lives of plants are as exciting as those of animals and humans. This is now taken for granted, but not until the end of the 17th century. Both the Church and scientists resisted even raising the question.
This book is a fascinating cultural history of the mysterious love life of plants, showing us why the virginity of plants has been unquestioned since ancient times and how science discovered that sexuality does exist in the plant world.

"Sexuality is not only a major influence on the lives of humans, it is also a fundamental part of plant life."
Jack Goody: The Culture of Flowers

From the contents

Reproductive modes in the plant world
Vegetative reproduction
Foliage mosses, liver mosses and haras
Bare as a seed
Recruits
The superiority of flowers
Spatial separation
Separate rooms
Missed rendezvous
Gone with the wind
The wind blew her around
Luring the pollinators
Double insemination

Inconceivable in antiquity: inbred reproduction
Sexuality of plants - impossible
The case of the date palm
From sex to genus
Virgin myths
A goddess of dual nature
Two faces of a rose

The symbolism of plants in the Middle Ages.
Mary and the lily
Mary and the rose
The medieval garden - a place of contradictions
The Rose Novel
The tree of masculinity

The awakening of botany in the modern age
The 16th century
The 17th century
The reign of the seeds
The birth of Ovism
The discovery of male gametes and the theory of the animalculists
Back to botany
Reaction of the Church
The 18th century
New objections from the Church
The sexual organs of plants

The present: the secrets of pollination revealed
The discovery of the pollen fly
An extraordinary advance in botanical research

Beyond the West
The botanical science of the Arabs
Ancient India
Old China

Flowers - virgins or whores?

DATAPAGE
Publisher Cser Publishing House
Series Not a series member
Language Hungarian
Author Fleur Daugey
Hard cover
Year of publication 2018
Number of pages 144
ISBN 9789632784540
Format 169 x 239 x 16 mm