Bibliography for When Plants Attack
The back matter for When Plants Attack: Strange and Terrifying Plants is seven pages long and includes my author’s note; source notes for quotations; a two-page glossary; suggestions for books to read, websites to visit, and videos to watch; and a selected bibliography listing a few of the sources I found most helpful in writing the book.
With all the material that Millbrook Press did include, there wasn’t room for a complete bibliography of all the sources I used. I thought this might be helpful for readers to see, so I’m presenting my sources here, organized by chapter. The selected bibliography in the book includes the URL for the When Plants Attack page on my website, which links to this page.
With all the material that Millbrook Press did include, there wasn’t room for a complete bibliography of all the sources I used. I thought this might be helpful for readers to see, so I’m presenting my sources here, organized by chapter. The selected bibliography in the book includes the URL for the When Plants Attack page on my website, which links to this page.
Introduction: Beware the Killer Plants
Brett Swancer. “Carnivorous Cryptid Plants of the World.” (2014): Accessed January 5, 2018. http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/carnivorous-cryptid-plants-of-the-world/.
Buel, J. W. Sea and Land: An Illustrated History of the Wonderful and Curious Things of Nature Existing Before and Since the Deluge. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing, 1889.
Pietropaolo, James and Patricia Ann Pietropaolo. The World of Carnivorous Plants. Shortsville, NY: R. J. Stoneridge, 1974.
Chapter 1: Stinging Tree
Armstrong, Wayne. “Plants With Stinging Trichomes.” Wayne’s Word Accessed December 28, 2017. https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/wigandia.htm.
Burdon, Amanda. “Gympie Gympie: Once Stung, Never Forgotten.” (2009): Accessed December 19, 2017. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung,-never-forgotten.
“Dendrocnide Moroides.” Accessed December 11, 2017. http://keys.trin.org.au:8080/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Dendrocnide_moroides.htm.
Hugh, Batty. “Stinging Trees - and a New Treatment for Stings.” Cape Trib Research Station (2010): Accessed December 23, 2017. http://capetribresearchstation.blogspot.com/2010/03/stinging-trees-and-new-treatment-for.html.
Hurley, Marina. Personal communication with the author. (December 19, 2017).
Hurley, Marina. “Selective Stingers.” Ecos 105 (2000): 18–23.
Musser, Anne “Diprotodon Optatum.” Australian Museum (2015): Accessed December 23, 2017. https://australianmuseum.net.au/diprotodon-optatum.
Polly, Paul David “Diprotodon.” (2017): Accessed December 23, 2017. https://www.britannica.com/animal/Diprotodon.
Zimmerman, Erin. “The Stinging Tree, or, Australia Hates Mammals.” Questionable Evolution (2012): Accessed December 23, 2017. https://questionableevolution.com/tag/gympie-gympie/.
Chapter 2: The Ants Rush Out
“African Elephant Fact Sheet.” Accessed June 10, 2014. http://assets.panda.org/downloads/african_elephant_factsheet2007w.pdf.
“African Elephants: Loxodonta Africana.” Animals Accessed June 10, 2014. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/african-elephant/.
Armstrong, Wayne. “Unforgettable Acacias: A Large Genus of Trees & Shrubs.” Wayne’s Word Accessed December 28, 2017. https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/plaug99.htm.
Bhanoo, Sindya N.. “In a Fight for a Tree, Ants Thwart Elephants.” (2010): Accessed December 27, 2017. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/science/07obants.html.
Goheen, Jacob R. and Todd M. Palmer. “Defensive Plant-Ants Stabilize Megaherbivore-Driven Landscape Change in an African Savanna.” Current Biology 20, no. 19 (2010): 1768–72.
Macdonald, David. The Encyclopedia of Mammals. New York: Facts On File, 2001.
“Whistling Thorn.” Accessed December 28, 2017. http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/whistling_thorn.htm.
Chapter 3: A Deadly Squeeze
Attenborough, David. The Private Life of Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Chamovitz, Daniel. “What a Plant Remembers,” In What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses, 113–33. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Excalante-Pérez, Maria and et al. “A Special Pair of Phytohormones Controls Excitability, Slow Closure, and External Stomach Formation in the Venus Flytrap.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 37 (2011): 15492–97.
Hedrich, Rainer. Email correspondence with author (September 28, 2017).
Libiaková, Michaela, Kristýna Floková, Ondřej Novák, L’udmila Slováková, and Andrej Pavlovič. “Abundance of Cysteine Endopeptidase Dionain in Digestive Fluid of Venus Flytrap (Dionaea Muscipula Ellis) is Regulated By Different Stimuli From Prey Through Jasmonates.” PLOS One (2014).
Volkov, Alexander G., Monique-Reneé Pinnock, Dennell C. Lowe, Ma’Resha S. Gay, and Vladislav S. Martin. “Complete Hunting Cycle of Dionaea Muscipula: Consecutive Steps and Their Electrical Properties.” Journal of Plant Physiology 168 (2011): 109–20.
Volkov, Alexander G. Skype interview with author (October 13, 2017).
Chapter 4: Slippery Pit of Doom
Attenborough, David. The Private Life of Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Chin, Lijin, Jonathan A. Moran, and Charles Clarke. “Trap Geometry in Three Giant Montane Pitcher Plant Species From Borneo is a Function of Tree Shrew Body Size.” New Phytologist (2010).
“Nepenthes Rajah Hook.f.” Plants of the World Online Accessed December 11, 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:603791-1.
“Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes Rajah).” Accessed December 11, 2017. http://www.arkive.org/pitcher-plant/nepenthes-rajah/image-G4728.html.
Walker, Matt “Giant Meat-Eating Plants Prefer to Eat Tree Shrew Poo.” Earth News (2010): http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8552000/8552157.stm.
Wells, Konstans, Maklarin B. Lakim, Stefan Schulz, and Manfred Ayasse. “Pitchers of Nepenthes Rajah Collect Faecal Droppings From Both Diurnal and Nocturnal Small Mammals and Emit Fruity Odour.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 27 (2011): 347–53.
Chapter 5: Stinking Deception
Angioy, A.-M., M.C. Stensmyr, I. Urru, M. Puliafito, I. Collu, and B.S. Hansson. “Function of the Heater: The Dead Horse Arum Revisited.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 271 (2004): S13–15.
Attenborough, David. The Private Life of Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
“Dead Horse Arum (Helicodiceros Muscivorus).” Plants Database Accessed December 11, 2017. https://garden.org/plants/view/124054/Dead-Horse-Arum-Helicodiceros-muscivorus/.
Stensmyr, Marcus C., Isabella Urru, Ignazio Collu, Malin Celander, Bill S. Hansson, and Anna-Maria Angioy. “Rotting Smell of Dead-Horse Arum Florets.” Nature 420 (2002): 625.
Chapter 6: The Bird Catcher
Burger, Alan E. “Dispersal and Germination of Seeds of Pisonia Grandis, an Indo-Pacific Tropical Tree Associated With Insular Seabird Colonies.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 21 (2005): 263–71.
Burger, Alan E. Personal communication with the author (October 31, 2017).
“Pisonia Grandis.” Accessed December 11, 2017. http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=291705.
“Pisonia Grandis R. Br. Grand Devil’S-Claws.” Plants Database Accessed December 11, 2017. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PIGR6.
“Pisonia Grandis R.br.” Plants of the World Online Accessed December 11, 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:604995-1.
Chapter 7: Attack of the Vampire Vine
Chamovitz, Daniel. “What a Plant Smells,” In What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses, 27–48. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Malakoff, David. “Devious Dodder Vine Smells Out Its Victims.” All Things Considered (2006): Accessed August 9, 2017. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6160709.
Marino, Gigi. “Parasitic Plants Sniff Out Hosts, According to Penn State Researcher.” Penn State News (2007): Accessed August 9, 2017. http://news.psu.edu/story/141628/2007/05/07/research/parasitic-plants-sniff-out-hosts-according-penn-state-research.
Runyon, Justin B., Mark C. Meschler, and Consuelo M. De Moraes. “Volatile Chemical Cues Guide Host Location and Host Selection By Parasitic Plants.” ScienceDaily 313, no. 5795 (2006): 1964–67.
“Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman.” Science Channel (2014). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXdZsq4fEU.
Volkov, Alexander G. Personal communication with the author (October 13, 2017).
Cunningham, Scott. Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1985.
Chapter 8: Creeping, Climbing Invader
Blaustein, Richard J. “Kudzu’s Invasion Into Southern United States Life and Culture,” In The Great Reshuffling: Human Dimensions of Invasive Species, edited by J.A. McNeely, 55–62. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: World Conservation Union, 2001.
Connors, John, Miller, Mary Stewart, Palmer, M.T., Small, Julie, Smart, Kim, and Weems, Jan. “Kudzu: Pueraria Lobata.” (2004): Accessed December 20, 2017. http://sites.naturalsciences.org/invasives/kudzu.htm.
Crenshaw Jr, Solomon “Natural Solution to Kudzu: 50 Goats Eat the Green Off Red Mountain Park.” (2014): Accessed January 5, 2018. http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/08/who_did_red_mountain_park_call.html#.
Bill Finch. “The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South.” Smithsonian.com (2015): Accessed December 20, 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/.
Forseth, Jr, Irwin N. and Anne Innis. “Kudzu (Peuraria Montana): History, Physiology, and Ecology Combine to Make a Major Ecosystem Threat.” Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 23, no. 5 (2004): 401–13.
Graf, Laura. “Kudzu No Match for Goat Crew.” Winston-Salem Journal, 2010.
Guertin, Patrick J., Denight, Michael L., Gebhart, Dick L., and Nelson, Linda. “Kudzu (Pueraria Montana).” Invasive Species Biology, Control, and Research (2008): Accessed December 21, 2017. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a491410.pdf.
“Kudzu: Pueraria Montana (Lour.) Mer. Pumol.” Weed of the Week (2004): Accessed December 20, 2017. https://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/invasive_plants/weeds/kudzu.pdf.
“Kudzu: Pueraria Montana Var. Lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. Almeida.” Invasive.org Accessed December 20, 2017. https://www.invasive.org/browse/subinfo.cfm?sub=2425.
Miller, James H. and Boyd Edwards. “Kudzu: Where Did it Come From? And How Can We Stop it?” Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 7 (1983): 165–69.
Mitich, Larry W. “Kudzu [Pueraria Lobata (Wiild.) Ohwi].” Weed Technology 14 (2000): 231–35.
Munger, Gregory T. “Pueraria Montana Var. Lobata.” Fire Effects Information System (2002): Accessed December 20, 2017. https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/vine/puemonl/all.html.
Shores, Max. “The Amazing Story of Kudzu.” Southern Culture Films (2013): Accessed December 21, 2017. http://maxshores.com/the-amazing-story-of-kudzu/.
Brett Swancer. “Carnivorous Cryptid Plants of the World.” (2014): Accessed January 5, 2018. http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/carnivorous-cryptid-plants-of-the-world/.
Buel, J. W. Sea and Land: An Illustrated History of the Wonderful and Curious Things of Nature Existing Before and Since the Deluge. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing, 1889.
Pietropaolo, James and Patricia Ann Pietropaolo. The World of Carnivorous Plants. Shortsville, NY: R. J. Stoneridge, 1974.
Chapter 1: Stinging Tree
Armstrong, Wayne. “Plants With Stinging Trichomes.” Wayne’s Word Accessed December 28, 2017. https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/wigandia.htm.
Burdon, Amanda. “Gympie Gympie: Once Stung, Never Forgotten.” (2009): Accessed December 19, 2017. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung,-never-forgotten.
“Dendrocnide Moroides.” Accessed December 11, 2017. http://keys.trin.org.au:8080/key-server/data/0e0f0504-0103-430d-8004-060d07080d04/media/Html/taxon/Dendrocnide_moroides.htm.
Hugh, Batty. “Stinging Trees - and a New Treatment for Stings.” Cape Trib Research Station (2010): Accessed December 23, 2017. http://capetribresearchstation.blogspot.com/2010/03/stinging-trees-and-new-treatment-for.html.
Hurley, Marina. Personal communication with the author. (December 19, 2017).
Hurley, Marina. “Selective Stingers.” Ecos 105 (2000): 18–23.
Musser, Anne “Diprotodon Optatum.” Australian Museum (2015): Accessed December 23, 2017. https://australianmuseum.net.au/diprotodon-optatum.
Polly, Paul David “Diprotodon.” (2017): Accessed December 23, 2017. https://www.britannica.com/animal/Diprotodon.
Zimmerman, Erin. “The Stinging Tree, or, Australia Hates Mammals.” Questionable Evolution (2012): Accessed December 23, 2017. https://questionableevolution.com/tag/gympie-gympie/.
Chapter 2: The Ants Rush Out
“African Elephant Fact Sheet.” Accessed June 10, 2014. http://assets.panda.org/downloads/african_elephant_factsheet2007w.pdf.
“African Elephants: Loxodonta Africana.” Animals Accessed June 10, 2014. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/african-elephant/.
Armstrong, Wayne. “Unforgettable Acacias: A Large Genus of Trees & Shrubs.” Wayne’s Word Accessed December 28, 2017. https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/plaug99.htm.
Bhanoo, Sindya N.. “In a Fight for a Tree, Ants Thwart Elephants.” (2010): Accessed December 27, 2017. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/science/07obants.html.
Goheen, Jacob R. and Todd M. Palmer. “Defensive Plant-Ants Stabilize Megaherbivore-Driven Landscape Change in an African Savanna.” Current Biology 20, no. 19 (2010): 1768–72.
Macdonald, David. The Encyclopedia of Mammals. New York: Facts On File, 2001.
“Whistling Thorn.” Accessed December 28, 2017. http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/whistling_thorn.htm.
Chapter 3: A Deadly Squeeze
Attenborough, David. The Private Life of Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Chamovitz, Daniel. “What a Plant Remembers,” In What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses, 113–33. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Excalante-Pérez, Maria and et al. “A Special Pair of Phytohormones Controls Excitability, Slow Closure, and External Stomach Formation in the Venus Flytrap.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 37 (2011): 15492–97.
Hedrich, Rainer. Email correspondence with author (September 28, 2017).
Libiaková, Michaela, Kristýna Floková, Ondřej Novák, L’udmila Slováková, and Andrej Pavlovič. “Abundance of Cysteine Endopeptidase Dionain in Digestive Fluid of Venus Flytrap (Dionaea Muscipula Ellis) is Regulated By Different Stimuli From Prey Through Jasmonates.” PLOS One (2014).
Volkov, Alexander G., Monique-Reneé Pinnock, Dennell C. Lowe, Ma’Resha S. Gay, and Vladislav S. Martin. “Complete Hunting Cycle of Dionaea Muscipula: Consecutive Steps and Their Electrical Properties.” Journal of Plant Physiology 168 (2011): 109–20.
Volkov, Alexander G. Skype interview with author (October 13, 2017).
Chapter 4: Slippery Pit of Doom
Attenborough, David. The Private Life of Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Chin, Lijin, Jonathan A. Moran, and Charles Clarke. “Trap Geometry in Three Giant Montane Pitcher Plant Species From Borneo is a Function of Tree Shrew Body Size.” New Phytologist (2010).
“Nepenthes Rajah Hook.f.” Plants of the World Online Accessed December 11, 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:603791-1.
“Pitcher Plant (Nepenthes Rajah).” Accessed December 11, 2017. http://www.arkive.org/pitcher-plant/nepenthes-rajah/image-G4728.html.
Walker, Matt “Giant Meat-Eating Plants Prefer to Eat Tree Shrew Poo.” Earth News (2010): http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8552000/8552157.stm.
Wells, Konstans, Maklarin B. Lakim, Stefan Schulz, and Manfred Ayasse. “Pitchers of Nepenthes Rajah Collect Faecal Droppings From Both Diurnal and Nocturnal Small Mammals and Emit Fruity Odour.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 27 (2011): 347–53.
Chapter 5: Stinking Deception
Angioy, A.-M., M.C. Stensmyr, I. Urru, M. Puliafito, I. Collu, and B.S. Hansson. “Function of the Heater: The Dead Horse Arum Revisited.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 271 (2004): S13–15.
Attenborough, David. The Private Life of Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
“Dead Horse Arum (Helicodiceros Muscivorus).” Plants Database Accessed December 11, 2017. https://garden.org/plants/view/124054/Dead-Horse-Arum-Helicodiceros-muscivorus/.
Stensmyr, Marcus C., Isabella Urru, Ignazio Collu, Malin Celander, Bill S. Hansson, and Anna-Maria Angioy. “Rotting Smell of Dead-Horse Arum Florets.” Nature 420 (2002): 625.
Chapter 6: The Bird Catcher
Burger, Alan E. “Dispersal and Germination of Seeds of Pisonia Grandis, an Indo-Pacific Tropical Tree Associated With Insular Seabird Colonies.” Journal of Tropical Ecology 21 (2005): 263–71.
Burger, Alan E. Personal communication with the author (October 31, 2017).
“Pisonia Grandis.” Accessed December 11, 2017. http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=291705.
“Pisonia Grandis R. Br. Grand Devil’S-Claws.” Plants Database Accessed December 11, 2017. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PIGR6.
“Pisonia Grandis R.br.” Plants of the World Online Accessed December 11, 2017. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:604995-1.
Chapter 7: Attack of the Vampire Vine
Chamovitz, Daniel. “What a Plant Smells,” In What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses, 27–48. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Malakoff, David. “Devious Dodder Vine Smells Out Its Victims.” All Things Considered (2006): Accessed August 9, 2017. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6160709.
Marino, Gigi. “Parasitic Plants Sniff Out Hosts, According to Penn State Researcher.” Penn State News (2007): Accessed August 9, 2017. http://news.psu.edu/story/141628/2007/05/07/research/parasitic-plants-sniff-out-hosts-according-penn-state-research.
Runyon, Justin B., Mark C. Meschler, and Consuelo M. De Moraes. “Volatile Chemical Cues Guide Host Location and Host Selection By Parasitic Plants.” ScienceDaily 313, no. 5795 (2006): 1964–67.
“Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman.” Science Channel (2014). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXdZsq4fEU.
Volkov, Alexander G. Personal communication with the author (October 13, 2017).
Cunningham, Scott. Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1985.
Chapter 8: Creeping, Climbing Invader
Blaustein, Richard J. “Kudzu’s Invasion Into Southern United States Life and Culture,” In The Great Reshuffling: Human Dimensions of Invasive Species, edited by J.A. McNeely, 55–62. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: World Conservation Union, 2001.
Connors, John, Miller, Mary Stewart, Palmer, M.T., Small, Julie, Smart, Kim, and Weems, Jan. “Kudzu: Pueraria Lobata.” (2004): Accessed December 20, 2017. http://sites.naturalsciences.org/invasives/kudzu.htm.
Crenshaw Jr, Solomon “Natural Solution to Kudzu: 50 Goats Eat the Green Off Red Mountain Park.” (2014): Accessed January 5, 2018. http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/08/who_did_red_mountain_park_call.html#.
Bill Finch. “The True Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South.” Smithsonian.com (2015): Accessed December 20, 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/.
Forseth, Jr, Irwin N. and Anne Innis. “Kudzu (Peuraria Montana): History, Physiology, and Ecology Combine to Make a Major Ecosystem Threat.” Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 23, no. 5 (2004): 401–13.
Graf, Laura. “Kudzu No Match for Goat Crew.” Winston-Salem Journal, 2010.
Guertin, Patrick J., Denight, Michael L., Gebhart, Dick L., and Nelson, Linda. “Kudzu (Pueraria Montana).” Invasive Species Biology, Control, and Research (2008): Accessed December 21, 2017. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a491410.pdf.
“Kudzu: Pueraria Montana (Lour.) Mer. Pumol.” Weed of the Week (2004): Accessed December 20, 2017. https://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/invasive_plants/weeds/kudzu.pdf.
“Kudzu: Pueraria Montana Var. Lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. Almeida.” Invasive.org Accessed December 20, 2017. https://www.invasive.org/browse/subinfo.cfm?sub=2425.
Miller, James H. and Boyd Edwards. “Kudzu: Where Did it Come From? And How Can We Stop it?” Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 7 (1983): 165–69.
Mitich, Larry W. “Kudzu [Pueraria Lobata (Wiild.) Ohwi].” Weed Technology 14 (2000): 231–35.
Munger, Gregory T. “Pueraria Montana Var. Lobata.” Fire Effects Information System (2002): Accessed December 20, 2017. https://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/vine/puemonl/all.html.
Shores, Max. “The Amazing Story of Kudzu.” Southern Culture Films (2013): Accessed December 21, 2017. http://maxshores.com/the-amazing-story-of-kudzu/.