Poisonous trees, killer flowers, paralyzing bushes, strangler vines, leaves that can start a war—Amy Stewart’s book describes about two hundred selected “villains” of the plant world. A beautifully illustrated selection of seemingly harmless plants, the proximity and contact with which should be avoided if you do not plan to go to their forefathers ahead of schedule. You will be surprised to find some of them on your windowsill, in your front garden or vegetable garden. A collection of chilling botany, on the pages of which medicine, history, chemistry and physics are closely intertwined with legends and mysticism, will entertain, alarm and enlighten even the most experienced gardeners and amateurs nature, and at the same time all those who had C grades in botany and who heard something about how plants are not at all as harmless as they seem.