Plant collection report
Family:
1. Asteraceae
The common species include daisy and sunflowers for ornamental; lettuce for crop; ragweed and thistles for weeds. Most plants of Asteraceae are herbaceous plants, but climbers, trees and shrubs do exits. most of the Asteraceae members produce taproots, but some of them also have fibrous root systems. The leaves can be alternated, opposite or whorled. The common plant characteristics of Asteraceae include having “composite” flower heads composed of many small flowers, called florets, that are surrounded by bracts. They also contain white sap in their leaves and stems. The members of Asteraceae can produce a type of fruit named achene. Achenes are dry and single-seeded fruits. They do not open at
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The common species of Poaceae contain cereal grains like rice and wheat, turf grasses, forage grasses and ornamental grasses. The plants of Poaceae are the world’s single most important source of food. The plants of Poaceae are monocots. Which means they have an entire and complete seed. They have hollow stems called culms plugged at intervals by solid leaf-bearing nodes and narrow alternate leaves borne in two ranks. They also have parallel leaf venation. The grasses are generally perennial or annual. They are usually terrestrial and free-standing. The characteristic of flowers of Poaceae is that they arranged in spikelets and each of spikelet have one or more florets. Then spikelets formed into spikes or …show more content…
Pinaceae are known in the fossil record since the Cretaceous. The members of Pinaceae are trees and mostly evergreen and resinous. The family contains many economically important species that are source of oil, timbers, resins and paper pulp. Some of them are cultivated as ornamentals. All the plants of Pinaceae are both male and female reproductive structures. They have spirally arranged and needle-like leaves. The female cones are large and are 1 – 24 inch long. They have many spirally arranged scales. The male cones are small and are 0.2 – 2 inch long and fall soon after pollination. Pollen dispersal is by wind and seeds dispersal is generally by wind, but some species by
The experiment was designed to test the hypothesis by planting an increasing number of genus Helianthus (sunflower) seeds in pots to see how they respond to increased density in limited space. Two replicates each of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128 seeds were planted in similar size pots containing an equal mix of potting soil and perlite. All plants were kept in greenhouse conditions exposed to similar light and temperatures settings and were watered at equivalent intervals. At the end of the time period each pot was evaluated for number of seeds that had germinated as well as number of stems with blooms. Stems and blooms were cut and weighed.
Flowers are incredibly important, especially in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. There are three main flowers pointed out in the course of the whole story. There are Miss Maudie’s azaleas, Mrs Dubose’s camellias, and Mayella Ewell’s geraniums. Each bloom was assigned in this way solely for the relation towards their corresponding characters. Flowers can be used to express emotion or send a message, and those associated with Maudie, Dubose, and Mayella are vital to the novel.
Tacitus is considered by many to be the greatest Roman historians to ever live. Clearly his knowledge and skills are fully demonstrated in his writings Agricola and Germania. Tacitus captures his readers attention witnessing different ethnic groups and there various customs from each other. Agricola focusses on Tacitus father in-law Julius Agricola. Because of Agricola Tacitus saw ethnography on the many people of the ancient Britain. In Germania Tacitus writes about the different Germanic groups of the time. Tacitus in both of his writings portrays the cultures, traditions, and establishments of many different ethnic groups. Cornelius Tacitus was born 56 AD in southern Gaul which is now modern Providence. In 75 AD he moved to Rome and became an orator. A year later he married the daughter of the consul Cn. Julius Agricola. Tacitus is best known writings included Agricola (97-98), Germania (98), The Histories (110), and The Annals. Harold Mattingly (1884-1964) translated Agricola and Germania. J.B. Rivers published his translation, with introduction, and commentary of Germania in 1999. How does reading Tacitus’s Agricola and Germania help provide a better understanding to classical Rome? Through Tacitus’s writings we can pick out important parts of
The animals in Yellow Wallpaper, Chrysanthemums, and Boys and Girls represents the characters and their characteristics. In Yellow Wallpaper John’s wife has postpartum depression. John is her physician but he doesn’t let her go out or do anything. She sits in a room that she hates and eventually escapes. Chrysanthemums is about a girl named Elisa and she loves to grow chrysanthemums. She meets this guy who is on the road all the time and he lives off of fixing broken pots and pans. Boys and Girls is about a family whose father takes the foxes fur and sells it for calendars. They get two horses named Mack and Flora who are going to potentially be used as horse meat. They don’t kill them instantly because at the time they had too much meat so they used them on the fields although Mack is lazy. They eventually kill both
For over two thousand years, people have been cultivating and consuming Asparagus officinalis. During this time some people have observed a peculiar manifestation of an odd odor in their urine shortly after ingesting this vegetable (Mitchel and Waring 2014). This particular stench has been described as smelling like boiled cabbage (Mitchel et al. 1987, Pelchat et al. 2011). Many experiments have contributed this smell to sulfurous molecules found in the urine after asparagus ingestion, the most common molecules found being methanethiol and dimethyl sulfide (Lison et al. 1980, McDonald 2011, Mitchel et al. 1987, Mitchel and Waring 2014, Pelchat et al. 2011). It is thought that the digestion of the chemical compound 1, 2-dithiolane-4-carboxylic
diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than 12,500 of an estimated total of
...ong, and shorter stalks are 20-100mm long. The flower length from the axils are one to three centimeters long. The optimum flowering time is from May through August. The fruit are pod shaped with seedlings coiled into two to three spirals with a strong net vein three to four millimeters long (montanaplant-life.org).
The short story "The Chrysanthemums" gives insight into the life of its author. John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. The locale of the story is of key resemblance to the Salinas in which Steinbeck was born and bread. "Salinas was a typical American small town, [differing] only in location and a few distinctive features" (McCarthy 3). The protagonist of this story, Elisa Allen, also resembles Steinbeck's first wife. "Steinbeck probably based the character of Elisa Allen on his own first wife, Carol Henning Steinbeck. Like Elisa, Carol was a woman of considerable talent and energy who wore 'masculine clothes' and was 'strong, large-boned' and 'handsome rather than pretty'" (Hughes 23). Similar to the time frame in which Steinbeck lived, the theme of the story comes across as being male dominant and the rustic setting allows us to visualize this.
In the book, Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls, depicts an inspiring, young boy named Billy, who struggled with life’s complication. Billy was an ordinary boy who lived in the country. Although his family was not wealthy, he lived a content life. He grew up in the mountains of Ozarks in Oklahoma. The whole story took place years ago, perhaps in the mid 1900s. It was evident that Billy’s appreciation of the scenery of the environment around him proved that he loved the woods. As he grew up, he began to learn the complexity of life. Billy matures as he learns to accept suffering and to make sacrifices.
The plant life consist of big coniferous trees, mosses, lichens, and special flowers called the Indian Paintbrush. Other trees that are very common consist of the
... Their attitude and tone is something that can be contrasted in the two stories.
In the lab exercise regarding plant structure and function, we examined slides containing the different kinds of roots (monocot, dicot). We labeled the parts and pointed out the different roles of each in the plant structure. Also, we examined monocot stems and dicot stems in order to familiarize ourselves with its external and internal structures. We sketched and labeled the parts of the stem and looked closely at the positions of each part. In the last part of the lab, we classified leaves into different kinds according to their leaf venation, bases of leaves, and apices of leaves. As an additional exercise, we sketched 20 animals and classified them according to phylum and class. We were also able to discover the scientific and common names of the animals. Overall, the exercises we did enabled us to familiarize ourselves with plant structure thus, gaining a better understanding for plant life and its importance.
Cotton is an annual, biennial or perennial plant, but in cultivation it is generally treated as an annual; herbaceous to short shrub or small tree - two to six feet tall. It consist of a primary axis, erect and branched with a vegetative lower zone having monopodial branches, and a fruiting upper zone with sympodial branches. The leaves of the cotton plant alternate, cordate petiolate, three to nine lobed and palmately veined, with varying size, texture, shape and hairiness. The large, showy, cream yellow, red or purple flowers are extra axillary, terminal, solitary, and borne on sympodial branches. The calyx (= collectively the sepals) consists of a very short cup-shaped structure at the base of the corolla. The five petals of the corolla are either free or slightly united at the base of the convoluted bud (Sundararaj, 1974).
Since the plant’s domestication the sunflower has been one of the most important crops in production that is native to North America, comparable to maize and wheat. The sunflower, what was once a plant utilized only in the Americas is now one of the most widely and diversely recognized used plant species in the world.
Barley is a very important grain in the world today. It is very versatile in every way. It has been well adapted through its evolution. It has a very mysterious and much debated beginning. Now however, barely has become well known and so have its many uses. Barley, which is of the genus Hordeum, is a cereal that belongs to the grass family Poaceae. Barley has many different varieties. The most common is Hordeum vulgare, which is a six-rowed type of barley that has a spike notched on opposite sides with three spikelets on each notch. At each notch there is a flower or floret that later develops into a kernel. Hordeum distichum is a two-rowed type of barley that has central florets producing kernels and it has lateral florets that are sterile. Lastly there is Hordeum irregulare which has fertile central florets and different arrangements of sterile and fertile lateral florets. This is the least cultivated species of the three main forms (2).