The printed plant engravings are coloured by hand with pigments from plant fibres.

Between the text pages there are four illustrated chapters in individual booklets, stapled to the book's leporello. In the collages shown therein, each plant is associatively assigned to one of the eight guiding concepts (i.e. two per booklet) and titled on the back of the open leporello. In the centre of each booklet, a text collage is printed that innovatively juxtaposes phrases from Baudelaire's original text and connects both plants/terms.

The book can be 'stretched' on its leporello form, so that the text "To the Reader" becomes visible as an adjoining, unbroken text both from the front and back covers.