Rob Kesseler & Wolfgang Stuppy
Edited by Alexandra Papadakis

Art and science collaborate on a fascinating story with extraordinary images in a highly-acclaimed book

Seeds, the most complex organs produced by plants, ensure the biodiversity of our planet. They vary from the impressive Seychelles nut that weighs twenty kilos to the dust-like seeds of the orchids. Some wait for hundreds of years to find the right place and time for germination after travelling thousands of kilometres or just a few centimetres. The evolution of their highly sophisticated structures from prehistoric times to today makes fascinating reading as do the wiles plants use to attract and deceive their chosen pollinators.

The extraordinary images that accompany this story provide an unprecedented presentation of the magnificent diversity of seeds in all their exquisite beauty and sophistication.

The Millennium Seed Bank Project is the largest conservation project ever conceived and includes the rarest, most threatened and most useful species known to man.

305 x 280 mm
264 pages in full colour
hardback
ISBN: 978-906506-00-1