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Book 1. Roslini-Pribulci. How borshchivnik and ragweed flood the Earth

They easily dominate space and time. Under the onslaught of their armies entire continents fall. They are green. They are in our midst. They are the newcomers.

Loboda or Voloshka, which at first glance appears to be a harmless at first glance, can become a harbinger. And for some time you simply do not recognise your garden or the field in your grandmother's village. Tenditni roslinki break through the asphalt and take over everything on its way, not dbyuchi about what grew on this territory before them. One minute and it will be necessary to find in the budget a borrowed milliard in order to avoid the planned damage.

How did the North American maple take over Ukraine? Why shouldn't you go into the borschivnika bog? What is the danger of water plague, which is disguised as mimosa and chamomile in citkovy shops, and what kind of species can destroy the foundation of your house? The botanist Oleksiy Kovalenko describes the peculiarities of such plants and the mechanisms of fighting them, including food preparation, in his new book.

Book 2. Fructi vs. vegetables. Why kavun — is not a berry, and tomato — is a fruit

Peppers & pomidori — not vegetables. Buckwheat — pottage. Cherries — not a berry.

All my life, successfully ignored botany, we are guided by only one simple (and hibnym) rule: malt — fruit, and all reshta — vegetables. In reality, it doesn't work like that. In the book «Fruit against vegetables» botanist, museum worker and author of the blog «Dovkolabotanika» Oleksiy Kovalenko will tell the true history of the products we see every day in the kitchen and in the supermarket, and will also teach how to distinguish an ovoch from a fruit, a mountain from a pot, and a kavun from a berry. In the book Oleksiy will explain, who tried to cure with fireplugs of the plumelessness and bites of scorpions, how lettuce was attributed to the ability to influence the male potency, where did the boletus commanded to us and how to cook chestnuts at home and not to destroy the flat on shreds.

Before you — not a collection of recipes or even a book of botany, the book by Oleksiy Kovalenka — the real and pre-tepna history of the most popular vegetables and fruits: From the peculiarities of their DNA and breeding to the greatest myths and culinary lifehacks.

Olexiy Kovalenko works at the National Science and Nature Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he is engaged in scientific research, conducts lectures and educational interactive programmes. In her free time she actively popularises botany — she keeps a blog and Youtube-channel «Dovkolabotanika», a page «Botanik in sneakers», writes for the Facebook page of the natural museum, where he talks about plasuni, yabluk, minerals and dinosaurs, as well as other science-popular platforms.

Olexiy decided to become a botanist in the 6th grade and did not change his mind. «Studying plants and being fascinated by them — is one of the things that make the world famous. And as it is written on my family crest “Don't be mean — study botany!