Celebrating New Zealand's flowering plants
Nine To Noon - En podkast av RNZ - Onsdager
When you think of books about sex - plants don't ordinarily spring to mind. But botanist, Philip Garnock-Jones has just published He Puawai - A natural History of New Zealand Flowers that celebrates with spectacular photography, all the ways flower reproduce. 100 native species are featured with close-up, often microscopic images, that can also be seen as 3-D images if viewed through the special glasses that come with the book. Philip - who was Head of Botany at Victoria University until 2009 - worked on the book for over 10 years. He joins Kathryn to pick his favourites.
