Plants

If you want to find out how old someone is, but don't want to sound rude, just ask them, "If you were a tree, how many rings would you have?"

Uses for trees and other plants are as varied as they are diverse. The cultivation of plants is part of agriculture, which serves as the basis of our civilization. Plants are used for most food stuffs, especially rice, wheat, and corn. Other food staples are potatoes, fruits, and nuts. Drinks produced from plants include coffee and tea.

But the nonfood products produced by plants are equally as important. Where would our world be without wood or cotton? Or how would our world be affected if we didn't have renewable fuels such as firewood, peat, pellets, and bio fuels? Coal and petroleum are fossil fuels derived from plants. Aspirin is a medicine derived from plants. Pesticides, drugs, poisons, soap, paints, waxes, shampoos, plastic, perfumes, chewing gum, and almost anything else you can imagine is derived from plants.

Our world would not exist today if it were not for trees and other plants with which we co-exist on this planet.

Bloggers speaking about plants can be found at sites like growingwithplants and memphiszoo.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Plants”

• Cannas, a Good Accent Plant in the Garden

  
  In the Garden — Authority: 130
  One or two cannas as accent plants can make a perennial border pop. I find that to be true for most tropical plants. You don’t want to see a sea of banana trees or pineapple lilies in a Hudson Valley garden. Just one, or maybe two, is fun because it’s so unexpected. Here, a canna with Queen Anne’s lace and ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Incoming! The World’s 10 Worst Invasive Species

  
  Life within me — Authority: 138
  See more under Geography & Travel or in the Animals & Habitats category The introduction of non-native species of plants and animals to a new ecosystem almost always results in environmental stress, degradation and sometimes even disaster. These 10 invasive species are infamous for the destruction ...
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• Punjab gets first commercial solar power plant

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Chandigarh, Dec 15 (IANS) India’s first 2 MW commercial solar power plant was Tuesday inaugurated in Punjab’s Amritsar district by Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah.The capacity of plant in Awan village, being set up by American company Azure Power, is proposed to be expanded to 5 MW.Abdullah ...
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• PUC weighs rate-increase refunds in light of Comanche 3 power plant delay

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 640
  Tests over the weekend on Xcel Energy’s new Comanche 3 coal-fired power plant revealed cracks in boiler tubing that will push the facility’s opening beyond Jan. 15 of 2010, according to filings with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. The PUC is holding a hearing at 11 a.m. in Denver today to determine if ...
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• 100 Years – 100 Objects: Muga Silk Moth

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 126
  The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series , our current curators have chosen one hundred ...
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• Button mushroom and Milky mushroom at cheap rate

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 166
  Dear friends we can provide fresh milky white button mushroom and fresh milky mushroom at the cheapest competitive price.Those who need fresh milky white button mushroom please contact us at the earliest.Our manufacturing house are in Delhi,Bombay...Our price is minimum Rs.90+transportation/Kg.Price is not ...
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• GBBD: Green Shoots for December

  
  Veg Plotting — Authority: 127
  Click to enlarge picture if needed. From left to right and top to bottom: 1. Potted Violas 2. Clematis Elsa Spath 3. Rosmarinus officinalis 4. Rosa The Fairy rosehips 5. Clematis Freckles 6. Shivering Anthemis tinctora E. C. Buxton 7. Cyclamen 8. Iris reticulata shoots 9. Erysimum Bowles Mauve - in ...
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• Plants vs. Zombies Review: This Game Is Taking Over My Life

  
  GeekSugar — Authority: 638
  I dont know what drew me to Plants vs. Zombies in the first place, but now, battling my way through level after level of plant eating zombies is my idea of fun. Whats so special about the game you ask? Well, its a simple premise: defend your house from zombies with the help of killer plants which stun, chomp, and ...
  13 hours ago

• Gifts For The Tree Hugger In Your Life

  
  College Candy — Authority: 664
  We all have that super-environmentally conscious person in our life, lovingly (most of the time) referred to as the Tree Hugger.  While they’re always giving back to Mother Earth by reminding you to recycle, to take shorter showers or turn off the lights, they are not so easy to give to .  It seems like there are ...
  15 hours ago

• Getting back into aquariums

  
  Aquarium Plants - Barr Report — Authority: 150
  Hi, Ive had some past with aquariums and Ive been completely out of the water for 5+ years due to moving and Id like to get back in but Ive got a few questions. 1 ) Aquariums - I really love the look of rimless ADA aquariums but is there anyone whom makes them in a rimless Acrylic style? Acrylic is just so much ...
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• AEHI Begins Development Of JV Using Large Nuclear Reactor For Desalination And Power Production

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 438
  We believe this reactor-desalting unit can uniquely produce the much needed water and electricity to pump it far inland where needed without creating pollution from fossil fuels  - By Linton Levy - Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (AEHI): AEHI China has recently signed an agreement to cooperate in the develop of a ...
  15 hours ago

• REPORT: BMW, Mini to let Mercedes-Benz inspect, prep its vehicles at port

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 739
  Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing , BMW , Mercedes-Benz , Mini , Earnings/Financials The Mercedes-Benz Baltimore vehicle process center has secured a five-year contract to inspect, process, and repair pre-delivery BMW and Mini vehicles arriving in the United States. Its a deal that makes economic ...
  16 hours ago

• A Christmas Miracle for Bloom Day

  
  Mr. McGregor's Daughter — Authority: 118
  On the 15th of every month, Carol, of May Dreams Gardens, asks everyone to show what is in bloom in our gardens, so we diligently search for signs of flowers. This is my first time in two years of blogging that I have blooms to show for a December Bloom Day, but thats not the miracle. The miracle is this (remember, ...
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• Ten climate change “flagship” species named at Copenhagen summit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Washington, December 15 (ANI): A report released at the Copenhagen climate change conference by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed ten species likely to suffer huge losses due to global warming.According to a report in National Geographic News, although the ten species aren’t those ...
  20 hours ago

• Danish and Brazilian Firms Team to Convert Sugar-Cane Waste Into Clean Energy

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  The Danish biotechnology company Novozymes A/S has said that it will work with Cetrel, one of South Americas largest industrial waste-management companies, to turn sugar-cane waste into clean energy. The research partnership is aimed at helping Brazilian sugar and ethanol production plants turn bagasse – the leafy ...
  21 hours ago

• Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like...

  
  wcs — Authority: 126
  Cactus. The christmas cacti are doing their annual thing right now. Its pretty cool, since these plants came from one we actually found in the house when we moved in. It was just barely hanging on; the house had been unoccupied for a while. But Ken divided and encouraged them and they have grown and bloomed ...
  21 hours ago

• A Ginjoler Tree of 200 Years Of Age

  
  Mallorca Daily Photo Blog — Authority: 127
  The Monestir de la Concepció in Palma de Mallorca can be proud of many things. Sadly, hardly anyone can ever enjoy or appreciate its architecture going back to the 14th century, its prized accessories or its 200 year old Ginjoler tree in the older courtyard, because the monastery is of a closed order and is ...
  21 hours ago

• Magnified Teensy Flowers

  
  JanasJournal.com — Authority: 120
  Magnified teensy flowers, ink & watercolor 8x6 The teensy bouquet was still holding up and the complicated shapes in these flowers intrigued me. So I stuck them under my magnifying lamp and drew them again in sketchbook opposite the bouquet side. The California poppy had opened up and wanted to play too so I ...
  22 hours ago

• green, prickly, and out of control

  
  cody bear's friends — Authority: 114
  so yes…i’ve chosen this euphorbia (one of the many varieties) to symbolize my day…so, we had an….encounter with some native wildlife on our third walk of the day.  it was late.  cody bear and pickles and i were just returning home from a shortsky, when the dogs saw something!  we were passing our ...
  22 hours ago

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