Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / July 2004

I goggled this (grass?) almost to my blindness. It's a common plant in
Fl, but I failed in my efforts. It can be fond in "mysteries" album in
webshots.
TIA

Pictures:
http://www.bloomrite.com/images/product/prd03.jpg
http://www.bloomrite.com/images/product/prd302.jpg
I recently bought a cute little "Pin Cushion" plant from Smith's

I am looking for a good tree key and am not happy with the ones I have
looked at so far.  I am interested in the area of eastern US and
Canada - mainly, I want the book to cover Ohio, but wider is fine.
When I took a basic botany course at Ohio State circa 1966, I had to

Hi sbb!
This interesting flower grew on my windowsill:
http://bksys.at/bernhard/img/dscn3341.html
Why are its leaves like needles? The bud is about 1 cm dia. Has

Flowers smell divine!
http://home.earthlink.net/~gnarlodious/MysteryPlant.jpg
-- Gnarlie

This weed grows like crazy in upstate NY in Binghamton.  Just how
widespread is this weed?
In our area, we call it Japanese Bamboo, our more commonly just
bamboo.  It's so hard to get rid of it.  It grows right back after

A couple years ago I watched a Discovery Channel documentary that
described (and depicted) some kind of anthropomorphic flower/bud/seed
pod things that were in the possession of a monk in Thailand (I think)
These thing were creepy, very like a dessicated fetus or something, I

Gostaria de conhecer um ou mais termos vulgares para designar a
Koelreuteria Paniculata.
Obrigada

I've recently gained interest in growing cycads that are cold-hardy to my area (upstate South
Carolina, Zone 7).  I'm wondering-- how long do individual cycad leaves live?  I have two C.
revoluta that have produced new sets of leaves-- one started with five and produced five, the ...

http://www.fotop.net/KingGhidora/plant_photos
I found this berry plant growing on the north side of a
limestone rock overhang.  I'm guess it might be Elderberry
but that's just a guess.  Can anyone give me the correct

Please, I would be very gratefull if someone could send to me
drawings with reactions of photosintesis or something like that.
I need that for my exam...
Thanks!

Try www.jarek.2ya.com
Icek

Can someone point me to a website that has a map of the US, showing
types of trees in certain areas, density of trees, etc?
Specifically what I am trying to find is which states have pine trees,
what areas of the states have pine trees, etc.

Some pictures of the Giant Hogweed.
Came across this giant plant on an evening walk.
http://y2u.co.uk/&002_Images/Hogweed 01.htm
Comments welcome.

How does this newsgroup differ from bionet.plants? More specifically, what
questions can be asked in this newsgroup?
Thanks
Anony