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A Field Guide to Surreal Botany

Janet Chui & Jason Erik Lundberg

First published 2008
Publisher Two Cranes Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Janet Chui
Pages 70+[1]
Price $12.00
ISBN 9789810810177

A guide to surreal/fictional plants, takes the form of an encyclopedia with contents provided by individual authors.

  • Dated "First edition: July 2008" on copyright page, with 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 number line. Publication has no cover price, price from Two Cranes Press website where it is also priced $14.00 in Singapore.
  • Authors of individual entries are not credited on the pages their work appears but are credited on the unnumbered page 71.
  • All entries have accompanying artwork by Janet Chui.
  • For contents complete with Latin genus/species botanical names go here.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (A Field Guide to Surreal Botany) uncredited Essay
5 Avian Trumpetflower Andrew Nicolle Short Story
6 Baby Cabbage, Also Regionally Referred to As the Leaf, Squallroot or Mother's Little Helper Jay Lake Short Story
7 Bone Garden, Otherwise Known As Adam's Ribcage Eric J. Millar Short Story
8 Couch Kelp Jonathan Wonham Short Story
9 Forget-Me-Bastard Elaine Clift Short Story
10 Kitty Willow Mary E. Lowd Short Story
11 Kvetching Aspen H. F. Gibbard Short Story
12 Screaming Mimi Yvonne Pronovost Short Story
13 Singing Grass David Kelly Short Story
15 Swift River Hopping Pitcher Plant Suzanne Palmer Short Story
16 Time Cactus Christopher M. Cevasco Short Story
17 Teslated Salishan Evergreen Livia Llewellyn Short Story
18 Waterbaby Cress Erik Amundsen Short Story
20 Wild Homilywort (var. Speechtree) Alex Chambers Short Story
25 The Faerie Hogweed Philip J. Lees Short Story
26 Haunt Vine (Also Known As Ghostroot and Spirit Creeper) Mark Teppo Short Story
27 The Nabokov Stephanie Campisi & Ben Peek Short Story
28 Thuringian Shade Tree Catherine Gunson Short Story
29 Stag-eye Nettle January Mortimer Short Story
30 Twilight Luon-Sibir Vera Nazarian Short Story
35 Attercopp Plant Alexandra O'Neal Short Story
36 Nightmare Lotus Kris Dikeman Short Story
37 Queen Victoria's Bloomers, Monkey Ho Eric Schaller Short Story
39 Wind Melon, Saturn Melon, God's Eyes David Coulter Short Story
43 Dream Melons Jon Hansen Short Story
44 Flame Lily Matthew Baugh Short Story
45 (Floating) Armor of the Dark Blue Heart Susan Fedynak Short Story
46 Lautokan Ear-blossom Plant (Tautau e vata) Brendan Carson Short Story
47 Padmamukhi (the Lotus-Mouthed) Shveta Thakrar Short Story
48 Whistle Tree Shweta Narayan Short Story
51 Big Yellow Flower of Unnecessarily Obvious Information Elizabeth Langford Short Story
52 Bitter Mortar Steve Himmer Short Story
53 Burning Bush Fungus John Bowker Short Story
54 Clickweed Ann Leckie Short Story
55 Cloud Anemone James Trimarco Short Story
56 Devil's Pork John Black Short Story
56 Esemtep Steve Berman Short Story
57 Fairy Apple, Timewarp Lemon, or Atlantis Mandrake Lucy A. Snyder Short Story
59 Firefly Bellflower Francesca Forrest Short Story
60 Giant Cloud Lily Patricia L. Havis Short Story
61 Leonidas' Bloom Adam Nakama Short Story
62 Library Plum Merrie Haskell Short Story
63 Ozymandia-plant Cassandra Phillips-Sears Short Story
64 Poliphila, or Shriner Vine Victoria Elisabeth Garcia Short Story
66 The Poseur Nosehairs Toiya Kristen Finley Short Story
67 The Sembla Matthew Kressel Short Story
68 Shade's Globe, or Sibylwort Darja Malcolm-Clarke Short Story
69 Ugly Tree, Medusa's Hairbrush Tom Pendergrass Short Story