Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / August 2005

Roxanne,
I used to teach a fungi course, and I found the students to be really
interested in them. That's where I first got my reputation for being a
fun guy.

Roxanne,
I used to teach a fungi course, and I found the students to be really
interested in them. That's where I first got my reputation for being a
fun guy.

Dear Plant-Ed folks:
I am teaching intro bio this fall, and since I'm covering the fungi I
thought it would be fun to have a few Petri dishes of example fungi to
pass around the class.  The only problem is that I know next to nothing

Dear Plant-Ed folks:
I am teaching intro bio this fall, and since I'm covering the fungi I
thought it would be fun to have a few Petri dishes of example fungi to
pass around the class.  The only problem is that I know next to nothing

I have an experiment at the moment as to cutting propagation on
blue-spruce, taxus species, arborvitae species, juniper species. I want
to know which takes more readily to cutting propagation. And the early
indications are that arborvitae is the easiest and fastest to propagate

For a long time I was puzzled why woods from elm, mulberry, hackberry
were not used as much even though in plentiful supply. And with my
recent experience of using timber beams of hardwoods I think I may have
answered that question. For I find that drying these timbers some of

Can anyone identify this - what I guess is a flower?  It's on the new Fiona
Apple cd cover and nobody has a clue what it is.  You might get a better
view on her actual website, but I'm including a direct link to the image as
well:

I've had this plant for some seven years now and have never known its
name. It comes up every july and dies in oktober or so. Peculiar are
its leaf crown which is set to one side of the stem, and its speckled
stem. It has two stems, possibly belonging to two separate plants. Here

Hello, all. I am looking for an easily available source of tissue that
high school students can use to see red or or orange chromoplasts in
freehand sections or peels. If memory serves, red onion has
anthocyanin-colored cytoplasm, not chromoplasts.

Hello, all. I am looking for an easily available source of tissue that
high school students can use to see red or or orange chromoplasts in
freehand sections or peels. If memory serves, red onion has
anthocyanin-colored cytoplasm, not chromoplasts.

Good morning folks
I've just found the group and enjoyed browsing around the helpful (&
occasionally not so helpful:-) comments & discussions.
I'm planning my undergraduate dissertation at the moment and would

Ok this is an odd question but let me explain. My friends birthday is
coming up and I want to send her flowers peace lilies to be exact and I
want the card to say, "Nothing says happy birthday like plant
reproductive organs." I am wondering if I can use the term plant

During evolution, Which one came first: Monocots or Dicots? Self
pollinated plants or cross pollinated plants?

I've been growing a red fruited eggplant from seeds which were given to
me as "Turkish eggplant".  I don't think it's S.melongena because the
flowers are relatively small and white instead of purple, the calyx is
much smaller and rounder, the leaves are somewhat different in shape

I'm no botanist, but I have what might be an elementary question about weeding.
I've got about 1200 sq. ft. of star thistles growing on my property in
California. It's in the flowering stage. It would seem to me that cutting the
plant before it can seed would stop it from ...