2024-01-22 14:53:10
Botanist Cedric Dentant guides us to the highest peaks in the world, from the Alps to the Andes via the Himalayas and Kilimanjaro to discover the extraordinary high altitude flora: what does this extreme botany teach us?
Let’s get to know the summits: from the Alps to the Andes via Everest and Kilimanjaro to discover high altitude plants, these extreme plants that grow where nothing grows anymore. Why and how to do treetop botany? From the soldanella of the Alps which grows even under the snow to the giant ragworts which we find on the 3 highest peaks of Africa, via the queen of the Andes, how has this rare and precious vertical flora adapted in such inhospitable conditions? What are the secrets of edelweiss but also of more discreet and little-known plants which have quite a prodigious history?
With Cedric Dentant, botanist, specialist in high altitude flora. He works on plants from the Alps, the Andes and the Himalayas. For his work Treetop botany published by Arthaud.
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