# The Plant Messiah

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- Book: [The Plant Messiah](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-magdalena/the-plant-messiah) ([The Plant Messiah.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-magdalena/the-plant-messiah.md))
- Authors: [Carlos Magdalena](https://www.bookquiver.com/carlos-magdalena)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-930-3
- Published: 2017-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Carlos Magdalena of Kew Gardens is not your average botanical horticulturist. He's a man on a mission to save the world's most endangered plants from destruction and thieves hunting for wealthy collectors. He is a plant messiah. From the planet's tiniest waterlily - the Nymphaea thermarum - to Huarango trees with roots over 50 metres long, Carlos has a miraculous ability to bring breathtakingly beautiful plants back from the brink of extinction. He has travelled to the most remote and dangerous parts of the world - from the mountains of Peru to isolated Indian Ocean islands to the deepest Australian outback - in search of the rarest exotic species. Then, back in the Tropical Nursery at Kew, he uses pioneering, left-field techniques to help them grow. Now he's here to spread the gospel. The Plant Messiah is the inspirational story of a man who has devoted - and risked - his life to save incredible species, all in the name of making this Earth a greener and happier place. Amen to that.