Certain plants produce some flowers with only male parts (staminate flowers) and some flowers with only female parts (pistillate flowers). Cucumbers and squash, pictured here, are a good example. The ...
Sometimes the teacher in me takes over and I must communicate a little lesser-known information about plants. Today's lesson is about bamboo. We don't have any bamboos growing outdoors in Michigan, ...
DR. ASA GRAY’S Botanical Series, New York, Ivison & Phinney, consisting of— I. How Plants Grow, etc., with a Popular Flora, etc. 16mo. pp. 233. II. First Lessons ...
You probably don’t think you need a botany lesson when all you want to know is how to keep your Christmas tree fresh this season. But explaining a few things might make the whole process make sense.
Al Will is a botany professor but on this day he looks more like Mr. Food, the chef on Channel 10. He is standing before his Broward Community College class wearing a white coat and an apron, and ...
Plants are amazing creatures. They don't have the sort of nervous system we do and they are mostly incapable of movement. They none-the-less communicate with one another and with the other creatures ...