Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World

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By Tom Havens ’61

Published April 20, 2020

Thomas Havens ’61 distills 5 million years of botanical history into Land of Plants in Motion (University of Hawaii Press). He describes how the ancestors of many Japanese plants spread across the globe while the islands evolved a wealth of native flora, and how the country’s dedication to herbal medicine and botanical science helped define those fields in the past 400 years.

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