Behind every empire’s rise, beneath every garden wall, and within every seed lies a story of entanglement older than civilization itself. From the spice routes that reshaped continents to the flowers that bankrupted nations, plants have always been humanity’s strangest partners and most patient teachers.

This richly illustrated cabinet of botanical wonders traces the living threads that bind human history to the green world: orchid hunters lost in fevered jungles, smugglers stealing tea from forbidden valleys, and shamans drinking bitter vines to dissolve the boundaries of consciousness. Here are flowers that promise paradise while concealing poison, and seeds that carry both salvation and ruin.

Entangled reveals how every garden we have tended reflects our desires, delusions, and dependence, an unending exchange between species that have shaped each other for millennia. For naturalists and dreamers, gardeners and wanderers alike, this is a journey into the hidden wonder of the botanical world and a reminder that the roots of our story may reach deeper, and stranger, than we ever imagined.