Introduction: Words and Images in the Representation of Plants, Danielle Sands and Daniel Whistler
PART ONE: PLANT HI/STORIES
Chapter 1. Plant Abstraction and the Welwitschia Mirabilis: Katherine Arnold, University of Liverpool, UK
Chapter 2. Literary Botany and the Legacy of German Romanticism: Isabel Kranz, University of Vienna, Austria
Chapter 3. Lacebark and the Interior Décor of the Jamaican Slave Cottage: Steeve Buckridge, Grand Valley State University, USA
Chapter 4. On the Roots of Philosophy as a Tree of Knowledge and Using Vegetables to Think: Thomas Moynihan, University of Cambridge, UK
Chapter 5. The Transformative Power of Mama papa and Kuka kintucha: Nataly Allasi Canales, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
PART TWO: SEEING PLANTS
Chapter 6. Time-Lapse Technologies and the Temporality of Plant Life: John C. Ryan, Southern Cross University, Australia
Chapter 7. Blue So Deep: Ben Woodard, Leuphana University, Germany
Chapter 8. Margaret Mee's Plant Portraits in the Kew Collection: Yota Batsaki, Dumbarton Oaks, USA
Chapter 9. The Ecology of Plant Iconography: Laurence Hill
Chapter 10. Extending the Botanical: Danielle Sands, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
PART THREE: PLANT FORMS
Chapter 11. The Psychology of Plant Homologies: Ulrich Stegmann, University of Aberdeen, UK
Chapter 12. Goethe and the Plant-Series: Daniel Whistler, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Chapter 13. Prototypes and Individuals: Sophie Gerber, University of Bordeaux, France
Chapter 14. Fern Times, or Vegetal Futures Past: Solvejg Nitzke, University of Dresden, Germany
Chapter 15. Algae: Joan Steigerwald, York University, Canada
PART FOUR: PLANT RELATIONS
Chapter 16. Hallucination, Sacrament, Poison: Prudence Gibson, University of New South Wales, Australia
Chapter 17. Technological Expertise in Nature and the Limits of Biomimicry: Edie Burns, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Chapter 18. Humboldt's Vegetal Communities: Quentin Hiernaux, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Chapter 19. Thinking about Sex with Plants: Natania Meeker, University of Southern California, USA
PART FIVE: PLANT MONSTERS
Chapter 20. The Human Vegetable: Stella Sandford, Kingston University, UK and author of Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants.
Chapter 21. "Monstrous" Plants: Caroline Harris
Chapter 22. Abnormal Plants-Abnormal Arts: Aliya Say, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Chapter 23. Vegetal Violence: Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona, USA
