El Reino Ignorado: Una Sorpredente Vision Del Mara- villoso Mundo de las Plantas. 2018. illus. (b/w). 271 p. Hardcover.- In Spanish.

‘It has become a vegetable,’ we often say when referring to an inert being lacking any ability to interact with the outside world. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although some see plants as mere passive and insensitive materials that adorn parks and gardens, the truth is that the plant world could not be more complex, dynamic, and sensitive. Plants are constantly interacting with a changing environment, they possess a huge diversity of behaviours, and they have developed the most surprising adaptations, which have allowed them to colonise all the ecosystems on this planet.

Through the pages of this book, we will discover the complex plant universe, because although it is not true that plants are moved by classical music, feel pain or empathy, and in many ways have little to do with human experiences and feelings, they form a group of extraordinary beings that observe and communicate, capable of remembering events, deceiving, defend themselves from predators, adapt to the most extreme environmental conditions, associate with all kinds of organisms, hunt animals and take advantage of their fellow creatures like the most seasoned freeloader.