Poison trees, killer flowers, paralyzer bushes, strangler vines, leaves that can start a war - in Amy Stewart's book you will find descriptions of about two hundred selected "villains" of the plant world. A beautifully illustrated selection of innocuous-looking plants, neighbourhoods and contact with which should be avoided unless you plan to head to the forefathers early. You will be surprised to find some of them on your windowsill, in the front garden or 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 nature lovers, and at the same time all those who had troika in botany and who heard something that plants are not at all as harmless as it seems.