Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / June 2004

I do not know if anyone has tried this before and been successful. Next
year I am giving it a try because green-ash is abundant but white-ash is
rare here. I am going to try it on a white-ash cultivar of
autumn-purple.

What causes a tree on a dwarfing rootstock to suddenly start
growing into a full size tree?  My dwarf Lapin cherry was
well-behaved for 3 years, putting out new shoots of 6" to 8"
per year, but for some reason this year the new growth is

Hey everyone. I'm working on a project about lichen symbiosis, and I'm
trying to prepare slides of the lichen thallus for investigation.
Unfortunately, I can't get the slices thin enough to view properly. I
need slices a few cells thick, nearly transparent. I'm using one of

Please, what is the name of this flower (East of Roumania, in May) :
http://lacour.pierre.free.fr/fleur_inc1.htm
http://lacour.pierre.free.fr/fleur_inc1a.htm
thank you.

I asked this question a long time ago. Received blank no answers. No
data on www as to the question.
The question is whether apples from a diseased cedar rust have any
harmful affects upon humans eating them?

I'm trying to identify the specific species of Hickory trees in my
inlaws yard.  Please take a look at the pictures at:
http://webpages.charter.net/rwpatterson357/temp2/
and let me know if you know.

Can't find this flower in my books...
Height about 40" (100 cm). First 20" (50 cm) have leaves alternate. Then
there is a distinct bend in the stem. The top 20" (50 cm) have what appear
to be many seeds (?) arranged in a horse's tail appearance. Each seed is

Picking a tutti-frutti tree
Chilean agronomic engineer Luis Carrasco, in a display of fatherly
dedication and encouragement, has achieved a scientific first —
growing a tree that yields five different fruits.

Last week in Camarillo, CA I saw a beautiful tree with blue flowers.  The
leaf is very similar to a Mimosa leaf.  A landscape guy thinks the tree is a
Jack Aramda but I can't find any info on Jack Aramda online.  I collected
what I think are seed pod and hope to learn if and how I ...

I was gardening in a T-shirt, wearing gardening gloves, and a weed
cutting fell on my wrist.  There was no immediate reaction but the
next morning it got very itchy and came up in blisters, and took over
a week to go away.

In the field a few days ago I saw willow trees full of gall spots. I
also saw currant bushes with their leaves coated in some sort of measles
like disease. I am hearing about West Nile Virus and it is killing
birds. So I wonder what happens to the virus as it gets say buried in

bigrog_98@yahoo.com (Roger L) wrote in message news:<a81b2c47.0405310440.6fc2e1c5@posting.google.com>...

Here I´ve 3 unknown Rhipsalis species. First two are found in a botanical
garden (Munich, without any label) and the last one grows in the greenhouse
of my parents.
1. www.golatofski.de/Pflanzenreich/gattung/r/bilder/rhipsalis/spec_1.jpg

Dear Friends,
Spirulina's information is very difficult to get even on internet
So i request u to give contacts /few web sites to get information on
1)Culture method of Spirulina