Questions tagged [botany]
The study of plants and plant life.
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What's the smallest fruit in the world?
What's the smallest fruit in the world? Seriously, I have been Googling a lot, no luck. And is it a fleshy fruit or a dry fruit? And what type of fruit (e.g. drupe, berry)? And it is treated as both a ...
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In a leaf, how does the water get out of the xylem?
In every textbooks, one can read that the xylem transports water and nutriments up to the leaves while the phloem transports the sap down to each parts of the tree, and that both the xylem and phloem ...
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Is Protista a kingdom just for unicellular eukaryotes that couldn't be classified under any other kingdom? [duplicate]
Is Kingdom Protista merely a "catch-all" classification for unicellular eukaryotes that do not belong to the kingdoms of Animalia, Plantae, or Fungi? Or does it possess specific criteria ...
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Does sectioning of sporangia of ferns kill the spores inside the sporangia?
In certain religions like Jainism, killing, or eating of seeds or unicellular microorganisms is banned. Does sectioning of sporangia kill all the spores? And by the way do the spores form a part of ...
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Copyright free species image database [closed]
I assume that there are several websites with licence-free photographs of animals, plants, fungi, etc. (properly identified at species level, of course), but I have not been able to find them. Can you ...
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How large giant kelp can grow?
The giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera,
Laminariales) is the largest extant species of (brown) algae. Yet, there are many different claims about how large this species can grow. Of course, I am aware ...
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What has caused my oxeye daisies to mutate?
Some oxeye daisies (Leucanthemum vulgare) in my garden are showing strange mutations. I have a few oxeye daisy plants around my garden in different areas, but only one plant's flowers are showing ...
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Do "basal" clades tend to be more similar than "derived" clades to their common ancestor?
I often hear certain clades described as "basal", "lower", or "less evolved", or "less recently diverging", and others described as "derived", "...
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Ontario plant with 3-5 leaflets per compound leaf
This plant has 3-5 leaflets per compound leaf. It caught my eye because, at first, I thought it resembled poison ivy. But I don't think it's poison ivy.
What species is it?
Date: May 11, 2024
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What is this unusual Plantago?
I found this plant in Rouen (Normandy, France) in a plant bed on the side of a street (May 15th, 2024).
It looks like a Plantago lanceolata but some of its inflorescences are not the usual single ...
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Thistle-ish plant in Texas
I found the plant below in Fort Worth, TX at the end of March this year, and can't identify it. It looks a bit like a basketflower, or some other thistle-like plant. It was the only one growing ...
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Plant ID - PNW, E Cascades
Trying to identify a plant I found recently. May 4, 2024; approx. alt. 3000ft on eastern side of Cascades (ponderosa everywhere).
I was at an NFS camping area near Ellensburg, WA, walking up the road. ...
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Can plants metabolize iron rust?
It is widely accepted that "throwing rusty nails in the garden doesn't provide nutrients to the plants"(my very similar question on gardening.SE). I was under the impression this is due to ...
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Yellow fruit with calyx, long leaves
What species of plant is this?
Location: Greece
Date: April 30, 2024
Description: Yellow fruit with calyx, long leaves
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How do roots of a seedling know the direction to grow?
When a seedling starts to grow covered by soil, I thought directions are clear:
Roots grow following gravity (down to the water), and the cotyledons
(right word?) grow against gravity, so that they'...
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