Natural Science Forum / Biology / Botany / August 2008

Anyone have suggestions on the best way to store pollen and keep i
viable.
I have two plants of the same genus, however, as they originate fro
opposite sides of the globe they bloom months apart. I would like t

As I go through life, I constantly look for improvement in everything.
There is optimal strategy
in most everything we do. There is optimal strategy in how
mathematicians define "fair games"

Hey! I was at a camp earlier this summer and there was a pretty cool
flower there. I'm going to give you the best verbal (textal?)
description i can...
It was in Forest Falls CA. thats at about 5,000 ft. elev. temp range

Actually I found this weeder tool several years ago when fixing a
water line using a tongue-groove-pliers
and then walking back to the house and seeing thistles along the way
and using those pliers to pull the

First please excuse my poor english. but there is no similar group in
german language. i look for a plant which binds most co2 in a small
room/terrarium. thanks for your answers.
greetings

I've just returned from a couple weeks in South Africa, and have posted
photos at http://flickr.com/photos/mmmavocado/sets/72157606625479692/
Please have a look if interested, and if those of you more knowledgeable
than I of the identities of some of these plants, I'd surely ...

First year I noticed grasshoppers with a red patch on their backs. Is
this something new like a mutation,
although I have seen several now. Or is it a different species from
the south that is moving northwards

Can somebody please identify the species of fruit tree included in
images at:
http://www.box.net/shared/static/seh2oklc0g.jpg
The place is East Timor. Photos taken last week.

Well apples and pears usually are the bulk of my canning, especially
with cinnamon applesauce. But this year the pears are few, for them
seem to be biennal in production capacity. One year huge, next year
sparse.

For years now I have complained about chokecherry as not being suitable
for canning and not suitable for harvesting since the fruit is so small
and pits so large and in fact poisonous if enough swallowed. So
chokecherry was on the borderline of practicallity.

Can somebody please identify the weed shown in photos at:
http://www.box.net/shared/static/hko6tdvy80.jpg
The place is East Timor. The photos were taken last week.
It is a weed in that it invades cleared ground.

I just found two of these munching on my porch jalapeno plants (one on each
plant).  I've never seen these monsters before, and would like to know what
the best options are for preventing them from nawing on my plants in the
future - especially out in the garden, where I really ...

I suspect some plant's leaves can absorb water from the air directly.
Seeing my hazelnut saplings shrivelling
in midday heat. However it is very humid with dew points of 73. So can
plants absorb moisture out of the

I can see a direction in the technology of botany towards the
elimination of grafting. How much easier
and less time consuming to make a cutting propagation rather than to
make a graft.