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Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere

Plants 'can think and remember'

"Plants perform a sort of biological light computation, using information contained in the light to immunise themselves against diseases ”
Stanislaw Karpinski
Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Filed under  //   7.15.10   Flora   Science  

Rice Paddy Art, 2010

 

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Rudbeckia hirta var. pulcherrima

Commonly called black-eyed susans, blackiehead, brown betty, brown daisy, brown-eyed susan, gloriosa daisy, golden Jerusalem, poorland daisy, yellow daisy or yellow ox-eye daisy

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Campanula patula (spreading bellflower)

by Beranekp 


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MBG Rare Books: Illustration of Conium Maculatum ,

also known as poison hemlock, cigue maculee, cigue tachetee, deadly hemlock, poison parsley

Missouri Botanical Gardens Rare Books : by Leopoldi Joannis Kaliwoda, 1773-78

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Mimicry

via epod.usra.edu 
by Tommy Hornbeck

"The male Coral Hairstreak butterfly, shown above, gives its best impression of the Butterfly Milkweed upon which it's alighted."
 
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 From "A Gift from a Flower to a Garden" bt Donovan

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Baobab Trees Photo, Tanzania

Photograph by Tom Schwabel

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Drosanthemum bicolor : Dew-Flower

Nhu Nguyen, aka xerantheum@Flickr is the photographer

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