This volume is the first installment in a series of books on botany produced with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Pollen. The Hidden Sexuality of Flowers breaks new ground by fusing art and science in a beautiful examination of the design and function of pollen grains.

The collaboration of botanist Madeline Harley and visual artist Rob Kesseler has resulted in this spectacular book with more than 150 images of pollen grains seen as they have never been seen before. A special light and scanning optical microscopes were necessary to photograph such tiny grains and reproduce them in these striking images.

Exquisite photographs of the mother plants and concise texts in which the authors describe the role of pollen in plant reproduction, along with literary references and botanical illustrations, complete the text. The book also has a completely updated chapter on the Millennium Seed Bank Project and its recent acquisitions.