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Library · 27 May 2026

Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants — a review

Ken Thompson's tour of Darwin's six botanical books is the rare popular-science volume that does what it sets out to do without inflation. It makes you see climbing tendrils, orchid lips, and worm casts as Darwin saw them — and as nobody had seen them before. The book that quietly justifies the Library section's existence.