Atlas of Poetic Botany

This Atlas invites the reader to tour the farthest reaches of the rainforest in search of exotic -poetic - plant life. Guided in these botanical encounters by Francis Hallé, who has spent forty years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest, the reader discovers a plant with just one solitary, monumental leaf; an invasive hyacinth; a tree that walks; a parasitic laurel; and a dancing vine