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”

• Kamala

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 134
  Botanical  Name: Mallotus Philippinensis (MUELL.) Family : N.O. Euphorbiaceae Synonyms: Glandulae Rottelerae. Kamcela. Spoonwood. Röttlera tinctoria. Common Name: Kamala or kamopillaka English Name: Monkey-face Tree. Hindi Name : Kamala, Kampillaka, Kapila, Shendri. Parts Used :  Whole Harb Habitat: ...
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• Duck Fat-Fried Sweet Potato Chips

  
  Edible Aria — Authority: 498
  Mandoline-cut sweet potatoes fried in rendered duck fat then sprinkled with coarse salt and freshly-ground pepper..Wash and peel as many sweet potatoes (garnet yams) as you intend to fry.  Using a mandoline set to about 1/16″, slice potatoes on a bias directly into a bowl of ice water.  Allow potatoes to sit in ...
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• Gordon Murray working on EV version of city car?

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 787
  Filed under: Budget , Plants/Manufacturing , Technology , Hatchback , UK , Alternative Fuel Gordon Murrays T25 city car looks pretty impressive on paper. It boasts higher cargo capacity and more seats (three) than a Smart Fortwo - and it promises to be built for maximum efficiency. According to Autocar , ...
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• ...November resignation.

  
  svelteSTUFF — Authority: 117
  With the conclusion of October, I resigned myself to the fact that saling season had come to a close for another year. Cold-weather time would now be spent... ...doing those procrastinated mundane indoor tasks of housework - cleaning, mending and the likes... ... completing projects from the someday to-do ...
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• Landscaping & Xeriscaping Ideas for the Southwest

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 150
  Landscaping is the final contact place on every newborn home, newborn bag project, outdoor project, or bag remodel.  It’s what makes the coverall send lovely, patch enhancing the building, the exterior, and more.  Landscaping also should be fashioned and installed to accent the architectural see of the antiquity ...
  9 hours ago

• Palm trees blowing in the wind

  
  An Alien Mind — Authority: 131
  Its finally cool in the jungle. The palm trees are blowing in the cool breeze sweeping off the sea. I hope the cold kills the white beetles that are chewing on our jacaranda tree. Its a young tree, and its vulnerable. The tree is much prettier to look at than the beetles are.
  10 hours ago

• The Best Way To Grow Fresh Herbs

  
  Lively Gardening Blog — Authority: 135
  Fresh Herbs In The Home If you want to grow fresh herbs there is no better way than in your own home. To be able to grow fresh herbs in your home means a lot of things like being able to use fresh herbs for cooking as well as having your own herb garden for aesthetic and practical purposes. Their appearance can ...
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• REPORT: BAIC/Koenigsegg may produce Saab 9-5 in China

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 787
  Filed under: China , Government/Legal , Plants/Manufacturing , Saab Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co. (BAIC), announced as a minority partner in Koenigseggs deal to purchase Saab from General Motors two months ago, plans to produce the Saab 9-5 on Chinese soil next year. The involvement of BAIC in ...
  12 hours ago

• The tree nursery grows again…

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 162
  As the rains enter full swing, the staff and volunteers at The Colobus Trust have been working hard to prepare the tree nursery for what is surely one of its busiest seasons. This week, Dougie and John took it upon themselves to start sorting through the various plants and trees which make up Read more: The tree ...
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• Dish soap a solution for houseplants with compacted soil

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 810
  Dish soap and water, of all things, solves the problem of compacted soil in houseplants, so you can avoid the time and trouble of transplanting.
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• Extending the Healing Gardens Season: Fall Foliage

  
  Therapeutic Landscapes Network Blog — Authority: 112
  Fall foliage season has definitely wound down here in the Hudson Valley, but other parts of the country are still in full swing, so heres a post about extending the healing gardens season with fall foliage (and late-blooming flowers). Autumn crocus at the High Line Designing for fall color ...
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• Hawaii Travel Packages Save You Money

  
  IENACE — Authority: 142
  Hawaii travel packages can save you money, and also save you time in making your own holiday plans. A package deal to Hawaii can be the answer to your prayers if you want an exotic vacation at as low a price as possible. Package deals are available for a number of different islands or just a single island if you have ...
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• Privatisation? EDF Demands that UK Taxpayers Pay for New Power Stations

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  French power supply company EDF has refused to build new nuclear power stations in Britain unless the “government” — in other words, the taxpayer, pays for them. The shocking development, a classic example of how the Tory/Labour privatisation policy only privatises the profits but nationalises the debts, was ...
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• Apple Picking c/o Solebury Farms

  
  Meals I Have Eaten — Authority: 130
  After about an hour of auctioning, Mr. Ass and I headed towards my car and then, separately, on up to Bucks County. We were specifically headed to Solebury Orchards , as I wanted to do some apple picking (I just realized that I said this happened on Saturday, but it was Sunday). I had hoped that maybe there would be ...
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• All Gone?

  
  Outside My Window — Authority: 125
  Very soon all the trees will be bare in my neighborhood.  This is already the case north of Pittsburgh. A week ago I visited the Clarion River in Jefferson County where I noticed all the trees were bare, even the oaks.  At the Allegheny Front last Sunday the leaves on the mountain had fallen but in the valley the ...
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• Operational Flexibility Enhancements of Combined Cycle Power Plants

  
  Power Industry News — Authority: 145
  Operational Flexibility Enhancements of Combined Cycle Power Plants Dr. Norbert Henkel, Erich Schmid and Edwin Gobrecht Source: Siemens AG, Energy Sector 1 Abstract High operational flexibility – the ability of a power plant for fast start-up and to adjust load output fast and predictable to changing ...
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• Help From Unexpected Quarters

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  We don’t usually think of azaleas as being a big contributor to fall leaf color, but sometimes they are. This is azalea ‘Pride’s Pale Lilac’. I have no idea why this isn’t a wildly popular garden shrub. It was hybridized many years ago by Joseph Gable, one of the pioneers of breeding rhododendrons and ...
  21 hours ago

• Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  From the San Francisco Chronicle article “ Report: Pot use, arrests rising in California ”: Marijuana arrests in California are increasing faster than the nationwide rate, and African Americans are being booked for pot-related crimes much more often than whites, a new report says. read more
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• Who’s Who in Ufology Today

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 455
  Below are ten names of the most educated, respected UFologists alive today. By studying their theories and published works, you will be on the forefront of UFology research. Jerome Clark: Researcher and writer. He attended South Dakota State University and Minnesota State University, becoming interested in the UFO ...
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• Middle East Power Generation, Alstom to provide Power Plant Equipment

  
  Power Industry News — Authority: 145
  Alstom wins contracts worth around €100 million to provide power generation equipment to the Middle East A lstom has recently won several contracts, worth approximately €100 million, in the Middle East in the field of power generation equipment. Notably, Alstom will supply key equipment to Korean contractor ...
  21 hours ago

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