By Holly Hayes
San Jose Mercury News
Tucson, Arizona Published: 06.21.2009
Amy Stewart is fascinated by plants behaving badly — what she calls "social misfits" of the horticultural world that can "kill, maim, intoxicate and otherwise offend."
In her new book, "Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities" (Algonquin Books, $18.95), the Eureka, Calif.-based writer offers up more than 200 examples of botany's bad boys and girls, along with anecdotes — and fun, if sometimes horrific, facts — that place the plants in the context of history, legend and science.
Stewart recently answered a few questions about the plant kingdom's "criminal element."
Please explain your insatiable fascination with the dark side of horticulture.
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