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Posts tagged botany
Jan 24 '13
Jan 24 '13
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lentils (Lens culinaris, previously known as Ervum lens) from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany
or,
lunch
Jan 23 '13
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“Be aware that the plants themselves have not read the field guides, and sometimes appear to be unaware of how they are expected to behave!”
Dec 22 '12
Aug 23 '12
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“Some bird has given you Common Broom or Cytisus scoparius. That’s a shrub I would prune back to about 2 feet underground.”
— Barbara Lloyd on a weedy shrub
(Source: botanicalgarden.ubc.ca)
Aug 20 '12
Aug 5 '12
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“Now listen up, FAQ-reader! If you are dozing as you read the FAQ, wake up! I need your attention because we are about to delve into a complicated area—the various names for plants within the species Sarracenia purpurea. It is tricky, so PAY ATTENTION! I am telling you, I have lost sleep over these plants.”
— Barry Rice, sarracenia.com
(Source: sarracenia.com)
Jul 18 '12
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Leonhart Fuchs’ De historia stirpium commentarii insignes, or Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants (1542).
May 31 '12
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“No other group of organisms has the collective genetic memory representing the distillation of thousands of generations of adaptation and selection pressures for the vicissitudes of site, process, and environment at this particular locus on the planet.”
— Swink & Wilhelm
Apr 29 '12
Feb 21 '12
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“Educational methods have changed. Fifty years ago the education of children was on the theory that they were all naturally bad, while to-day it has dawned upon teachers and also the public that there are both good and bad tendencies in every child, and that education should not attempt to make children over according to rule.”
— Stories of Luther Burbank and his Plant School (1920)
Feb 15 '12
