★ listed in the Excellent Books Recommended for Teenagers in the Summer of 2020 by Shanxi Provincial Press and Publication Bureau
★ Although they can’t speak or move, plants hide big mysteries. They have different skills, and they dress up the beautiful world.

This book takes the evolutionary history of plants as the main context, and introduces the representative algae, bryophytes, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms in detail. While understanding the evolutionary history of plants, we can learn a lot of related plant knowledge from the book. There are many verses and stories in it, which allows readers to appreciate the charm of poetry while mastering the knowledge of plants.

Hai Qiu, a member of Changchun Writers’ Association, editor-in-chief of Primary Students’ Reading Newspaper. Her works are published in dozens of children’s literature publications such as Yilin·(Juvenile Edition).

1 The earliest plants on Earth 1
2 Moss landed and made the world green 4
3 Food of dinosaurs 7
4 The ancestor of ferns—psilophyte 10
5 From a seed to a plant 13
6 Sago palm—the “iron tree” can also bloom 16
7 Golden ginkgos in autumn 19
8 “Three Big Trees” from ancient times 22
9 Metasequoia seen 100 million years later 25
10 Desert plants whose leaves never fall 28
11 Where do angiosperms come from 31
12 Why are the flowers so bright-colored 34
13 Peonies—the king and minister of flowers 37
14 The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold 40
15 To appreciate chrysanthemums with poems and songs 43
16 Orchid—the most famous flower in China 46
17 Herbs that grow underground 49
18 Wheat—one of the three major grains 52
19 Rice—one of the three major grains 55
20 Corn from afar 58
21 Cotton is the former city flower of Shanghai 61
22 Lesser-known spicy degree 64
23 Tomatoes were the scary wolf peach 67
24 The magic medicine wolfberry 70
25 Apples are so red 73
26 The No. 1 fruit in the world—peach 76
27 Imagining plums can quench thirst 79
28 The twists and turns of naming the pineapple 82
29 Mangoes you love and hate at the same time 85
30 The lychee beloved in ancient and modern times 88
31 Tea comes from the word “荼” in the Tang Dynasty 91
32 Coffee—one of the three major beverages in the world 94
33 The distance from cocoa to chocolate 97
34 Ginseng—the king of herbs 100
35 The gourd symbolizing good luck 103
36 Watermelons come from the Western Regions 106
37 We all love pumpkins 109
38 Who is the “North Gourd” 112
39 Gentle killer dodder 115
40 The name of morning glory 118
41 Hard-got sweet potatoes 121
42 Sarracenia—animal-eater 124
43 Does rafflesia really eat people 127
44 Nepenthes preys like this 130
45 Utricularia Vulgaris L.—the most adorable killer plant 133
46 The bleeding dracaena 136
47 The baobab tree in fairy tales 139
48 The amazing dancing grass 142
49 Plants that can “speak” 145
50 Does ginger really get spicier with age 148
51 Garlic—the No. 1 in the vegetable world 151
52 Ecological civilization starts from us 154