Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / May 2005

Most culms of grasses are hollow. But in Allaby's Dictionary of Botany
is written some grasses had culms filled with pith.
Could anyone give examples? Wich species of Gramineae have culms
filled with pith?

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aside from the discovery, what is that fly on the flower?

After all, animals do.
Maybe it's because they don't have to walk about.

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I'm thinking Sarracenia, but I can't find a picture of anything like it.

I would like to go see wildflowers in Colorado this coming
week (May 23-30).  Where would be some good places to go?
Someone told me that "It's already too late" but I refuse
to believe that.  There are places the snow hasn't melted

Hiya!
I just returned from a holiday in the Netherlands, and the neighbor of
the friend i was staying with had a Monkey Puzzle tree in their front
yard.  I had never seen one before and i got to talking with the owner,

... I've visited most of the resources mentioned in "MiniFAQ # 048" and
still don't know where to start to try and identify a plant I've never seen
before, neither in the field nor in books or sites I've consulted.
Is there a kind of "Finder" somewhere, where I could enter ...

No spam intended, I don't imagine I'll be selling any photos here, but I
just thought plant enthusiasts might be interested in taking a look at
www.cfgphoto.com as the site includes thousands of plant photos and I've
recently put up over 100 plant and garden articles that I used to ...

Over at http://members.aol.com/Waucoba­5/ione/ioneproject.html I've
uploaded my new web page, "Fossil Plants Of The Ione Basin,
California." It's all about my many field trips to the leaf bearing
Middle Eocene Ione Formation of the Ione Basin, Amador County, in the

a friend of mine has an unidentified shrub in his garden (germany):
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then enter  Mediacenter.
leaves 3-5 cm long. Twigs have a very thick and wrinkled bark.

I would like to identify tropical plant that are on my pictures.
Because I am not botany expert I hope that someone from group helps
me.
I'm looking for Latin and English names for these plants.

Can anyone give any info on this species?  It was found on the island of
Kolocep this May and someone tells me that it is F. campestre.  I cannot
find a species of this name or F. campestrum through Google.  I can supply
images if this might help.

Siberian Snow Flower
Please, can someone ID this flower.
I came across this description in a book that was published in 1891.
"One of the papers tells of a newly discovered flower. It is called the snow

Costus igneus native to south africa is realy wonder herb,and it reduce
the blood sugar level .
it is my personal experience.
share ur opinions.

In most professional literatures, all parts of Cascabela Thevetia (Syn.
Thevetia Peruviana) are refered to as highly poisonous. This includes
the fruit pulp. In an attempt to find-out about the fruit toxicity, I
have observed how the fruit develops. When mature, it falls on the