A review by wynter
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination by Richard Mabey

4.0

Can I possibly need more research on the subject after reading Mabey's wonderful book? This is a comprehensive and very enjoyable work on various species of plants and their relationship with mankind. If you would like to learn which trees possessed mystical characteristics for our ancestors, and which were suspected of having wondrous medicinal properties, this is great place to start. If you need to check a phrase "floral gangbang" off your literary bucket list, look no further. Lovely book that pays tribute to nature in all its weird, creative, and shameless glory.