Annals of Botany 93: 784-785, 2004
© 2004 Annals of Botany Company
Langenheim, J.H. Plant resins: chemistry, evolution, ecology and ethnobotany.
Plant resins: chemistry, evolution, ecology and ethnobotany.
J. H. Langenheim. 2003.
Portland, Cambridge: Timber Press.
$49.95 (hardback). 586 pp.
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When I agreed to review this book, I did so because I thought it would be an opportunity to bring myself up-to-date in a field I felt I ought to know more about. I had no idea that it would make such compulsive reading. Jean Langenheim has spent her career working on plant resins and she has done a great service by assembling her wealth of knowledge and experience into this marvellous book. The blandness of the title