Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / April 2007

Can someone please ID this tree growing with beautiful bark in northern Florida?
Bark:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b62/shekk/florida1.jpg
Leaves:

Ok what is the truth about telegraph vines being able to detect damage
to similar spicies twenty miles away.  Is this urban legend or has
there been research to prove this?  If so it sound fascinating... I'd
love to read about it.. Anybody got a paper or a link to one?

I know that most of the woody cells in most species of
mature trees have lost their cytoplasm and function only
as physical support, transport, or protective cells.  They
are no longer alive in that they no longer have any

In the ads for the Discovery Channel's new show "Planet Earth", there
is a mushroom dropping some kind of thing that looks like a net.  What
is it?  What kind of mushroom is that?
Aaron Hirshberg