Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / November 2007

In a field of same mother cuttings, where all roots graft
from contact, do they again become one single tree?

This flower is coming up in early summer in a warm temperate garden.
http://www.box.net/shared/static/gdzf2ncm01.jpg
Can anybody give me a lead to its ID? I can't even begin to recognise
the family.

Is there any fusion in the seed pod I am taking a class  and I have to
determan what amount of fusion there is in 4 families Madnoliaceae
rosaceae orchidacea and nymphaeaceae

Hey, my employer has a plant in her office that has just recently
bloomed for the first time. She was wondering if anyone knows under
what circumstances it will bloom. There is a picture at:
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/boxauthor/IMG_0700.jpg

One of my colleagues just showed me a  clipping from a Chinese newspaper
reporting on tiny / microscopic plant that is now in bloom in several
locations around the world.  The pictures looked to me like moss
capsules, but the translation was "flowers".  Supposedly Buddhist legend ...

One of my colleagues just showed me a  clipping from a Chinese newspaper
reporting on tiny / microscopic plant that is now in bloom in several
locations around the world.  The pictures looked to me like moss
capsules, but the translation was "flowers".  Supposedly Buddhist legend ...

Hello to sci.bio.botany,
I am a complete ignoramus when it comes to botany however I
do take care of the plants in my garden without much
trouble.

Dear Dr. Hershey,
I am writing to request an electronic copy of your article "The  
Pleasures and Pitfalls of Plant Science Activities." We are a non-
profit science museum and we are leading a workshop on teaching  

Dear Dr. Hershey,
I am writing to request an electronic copy of your article "The  
Pleasures and Pitfalls of Plant Science Activities." We are a non-
profit science museum and we are leading a workshop on teaching  

Earlier I asked a question about a blue member of the Solanaceae that
came from  packet of seeds of geographically unspecifed  "flowers
of the meadow".
Now a white one has flowered:

A long time ago someone crossed a cabbage
with a radish and produced a new species,
with the foliage of a radish and the root of
a cabbage.