Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities Audiobook (Free)

Beware! The sordid lives of vegetation behaving badly.

A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that halts the center; a shrub that triggers paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that prompted a battle. Amy Stewart, bestselling author of Flower Confidential, assumes over 2 hundred of Mom Nature’s most appalling masterpieces within an A to Z of plant life that destroy, maim, intoxicate, and usually offend.

Stewart makes a vivid family portrait of evildoers which may be lurking in your own backyard. Sketching on history, medication, science, and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, enlighten, and security alarm also the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers.