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  • The Still Secret Life of Plants...

    • 21 Apr 2012
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    • April 21 2012 Communication Phenomena Plants Research Response Secret Life
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    The Secret Life of Plants by Joannah Underhill

    "Plants may be able to respond to sounds and even make clicking noises to communicate with each other, according to new research.

    If initial results can be confirmed and replicated, the latest findings could change our understanding of how plants sense their environment and communicate with each other. It would also overturn years of scepticism that plants can 'talk' in this way and give lie to the idea that animals are the only organisms capable of such feats."

    via cosmosmagazine.com

     

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  • "Where Our Food Comes From"

    • 5 Mar 2012
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    • Agriculture Botany Diversity Film Shorts March 05 2012 Origins Plants
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    "Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov's extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth's richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov's  path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov's time and why they matter."
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    Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов) (November 25 [O.S. November 13] 1887 – January 26, 1943) was a prominent Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, corn, and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.

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  • USDA Interactive Plant Hardiness Zone Map

    • 31 Jan 2012
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    • Farming Gardening Hardiness Interactive January 31 2012 Maps Plants USDA
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    The 2012 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map is the standard by which gardeners and growers can determine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual minimum winter temperature, divided into 10-degree F zones.

    For the first time, the map is available as an interactive GIS-based map. 
    Users may also simply type in a ZIP Code and find the hardiness zone for that area.

    via planthardiness.ars.usda.gov

     

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  • Platycerium - A Pretty Peculiar Plant

    • 6 Jan 2012
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    • January 06 2012 Plants Unusual
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    "Platycerium – even the name sounds odd. Mostly referred to as Staghorn or Elkhorn ferns, this genus of fern is, to say the very least, unusual looking. Yet they are fascinating to look at because their fronds are something else, quite unique. To look at a platycerium is to look back in time millions of years."
    see more via kuriositas.com

     

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  • Right Plants 4 Me

    • 4 Aug 2011
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    • 03August11 Database Information Plants
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    Click Search Plant Database to search for the right plants for the right place. The rightplants4me website is free to use, designed to help you search and find the right plants and advice to suit your personal garden design and growing conditions. The database has over 3,700 plants and over 10,500 photographs to help with plant identification. The plant database is growing daily. Each plant is accompanied with images, full plant description, Latin names explained, planting and illustrated pruning advice plus pests and diseases.
    via rightplants4me.co.uk

     

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  • Dead Plant Moving ! Plant Origami Shows How...

    • 9 Jun 2011
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    • 08June11 Movement Origami Plants
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    Seed capsule from the ice plant Delosperma nakurense in the hydrated, unfolded state. (M. J. Harrington)
    "By determining how a desert plant’s seed pods unfurl when they get wet, biologists discovered new principles for designing materials that respond to their environments. Eventually, the insights may help engineers improve satellites or develop artificial muscles."  
    via wired.com

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  • hort.net

    • 20 Apr 2011
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    • 20Apr11 Gardening Horticulture Plants
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    Welcome to hort.net!

     

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