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• The Elusive Dressler’s Bee Balm

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 535
  I have come into the habit of describing some plants growing in my garden as monarda , as if that is a common name. Other gardeners know what I mean when I refer to when I talk about monarda. I’m referring to bee balm, also known as oswego tea, also known as bergamot, a native North American herb that is brewed ...
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• Sutherland 2 out of 3 vs Pirates (NSW)

  
  Futsal4all - Futsal in Australia and New Zealand — Authority: 143
  The round 3 FNSW Futsal Super League fixture was played today at Menai Indoor Sports Centre with the results of the day as follows; Youth Men, Sutherland 11 vs. Pirates 1 Open Women, Sutherland 0 vs. Pirates 2 Open Men, Sutherland 10 vs. Pirates 3 Thank you to all the spectators who attended to support the teams.
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• The social life of plants

  
  Mr. Barlow's Blog — Authority: 129
  New research has discovered that plants are social creatures. A common flowering plant, Impatiens pallida , devotes less energy than usual to growing roots when surrounded by relatives. In other words it tries not to take too many resources away from its family. But , in the presence of genetically unrelated ...
  2 days ago

• Xanthoria australis

  
  Tony Middleton photography blog — Authority: 104
  After fire the grass tree (Xanthoria australis) flowers in a spectacular and prolific manner. This particular one had a flower stem about 3m in height. It was not only this that attracted me to this particular specimen but the smaller ‘dolphin’ shaped flower near the crown. Whilst the light this particular morning ...
  3 days ago

• How Plant Stem Cells Guard Against Genetic Damage

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2009) — Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, have shown how plants can protect themselves against genetic damage caused by environmental stresses. The growing tips of plant roots and shoots have an in-built mechanism that, if it detects damage to the DNA, causes the cell to ...
  4 days ago

• In Greenery We Trust

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 417
  If anyone has ever tried to read and understand a botany book (botanists excluded), then you will understand what I mean when I say it’s nigh on impossible, and vaguely similar to reading a foreign language.  This is the problem we have encountered for quite a while now… As part of our forest research programme, ...
  5 days ago

• Armen Takhtajan (1910-2009)

  
  Uncommon Ground — Authority: 427
  Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian ( Russian : Армен Леонович Тахтаджян; surname also transliterated Takhtadjan or Takhtadzhian) ( June 10 , 1910 - November 13 , 2009 ), was a Soviet - Armenian botanist , one of the most important figures in 20th century plant ...
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• November 18, 1810 (a Sunday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 127
  On this date, America’s leading botanist in the mid-nineteenth century, Asa Gray, was born. On a visit to England in 1851, Gray met for lunch with Charles Darwin, and they formed a lasting connection. When Gray returned to the United States, he was able to see that North American plant life had evolved [...]
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• Finding orchids in Colombias other rainforest

  
  NatGeo News Watch — Authority: 501
  Colombia has made impressive progress in declaring a large part of its Amazon rain forest protected for conservation. But theres another rain forest in Colombia, the Chocó, on the Pacific side of the country. This forest teems with even more species than in the Amazon forest, but it is not as well protected. ...
  6 days ago

• Galapagos for plants: conservationists fight for Robinson Crusoe island species

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  A programme to save one of the most important sites for botanic conservation - known as the "Galapagos for plants" - against threatening invasive species has been drawn up.
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• A Flower to Fight Vampires: The Secret of Vervain

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 550
  Image via Wikipedia It’s unbelievable how this Vampire phenomenon has hit our culture! On TV, in movies, in books – we just can’t seem to escape these blood sucking bachelors. And just as many vampire stories there are out there, there are even more vampire legends. What harms a vampire- Garlic? A wooden ...
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• Botany Bay vs. Sutherland round 3 games set (NSW)

  
  Futsal4all - Futsal in Australia and New Zealand — Authority: 143
  FNSW announce that the round 3 Futsal Super League fixture between Botany Bay Pirates FC and the Sutherland Shire Futsal Association Incorporated will be played at the following dates and times. Sunday 22nd November 2009  Menai Indoor Sports Centre Youth Men, 11.15am kick off Open Women, 12noon kick off Open ...
  1 week ago

• A Strange System: Food: What We Can Do

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 403
  I’m all ranted out for now, so I shall bring this series to a close.  I have hinted at a number of things we, the average consumer, can do to improve the system.  So, to finish off the series, I am posting a list created by a professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Richard Andrus, which I think is completely ...
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• November 15, 1851

  
  THIS DATE, FROM HENRY DAVID THOREAU'S JOURNAL — Authority: 127
  What shall we say of the comparative intellectual vigor of the ancients and moderns, when we read of Theophrastus, the father of botany, that he composed more than two hundred treatises in the third century before Christ and the seventeenth before printing, about twenty of which remain, and that these fill six volumes ...
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• Homeschool Highlight Reel- Leaf Shapes

  
  Work And Play, Day By Day — Authority: 134
  Welcome to the Homeschool Highlight Reel, a place for homeschooling families to share ideas, encouragement, and inspiration. For more information and to read the rules, click here . Last week I noticed some of my button codes are not working properly any longer. I will try to fix those before next week. Im also ...
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• Ancient Brews & Archeo-Inebriology

  
  The Teleomorph — Authority: 422
  Biomolecular archaeologist spends his career analyzing ancient alcoholic beverages.He has a few books, the newest is called Uncorking the Past.Here are some recipes for 9000 year old Chinese wine, 5500 year old Mesopatamian beer and more.Cheers!Posted in anthropology, botany, chemistry, entheogens, evolution, science
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• Nabnasset Lake Draw Down And President Obama’s Dilemma

  
  Photos and thoughts from my journey — Authority: 107
  Shipley Swamp Looking toward Nabnasset Lake, across the beaver pool There is a pond in Westford Massachusetts where I live called Nabnasset Lake. There is an association of people who own property around the lake and they take care of it. One if the most dramatic actions they take is to draw the lake down in the ...
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• Can A Plant Be Altruistic?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  Yellow jewelweed (impatiens pallida) appears to have the ability to recognize ‘relatives’ from ’strangers’ and then shift resources for growth to benefit relatives.Although plants have the ability to sense and respond to other plants, their ability to recognize kin and act altruistically has been the subject ...
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• November 12, 1871 (a Sunday)

  
  Professor Olsen @ Large — Authority: 127
  On this date, the Austrian agronomist Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg was born.  He was one of the scientists, the others being Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, who independently rediscovered the work that Gregor Mendel did in the 1860s on the laws of heredity.  Von Tschermak published his findings in June ...
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• Plant experts unveil DNA barcode

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 153
  Hundreds of experts from 50 nations are set to agree on a "DNA barcode" system that gives every plant on Earth a unique genetic fingerprint. Identifying a plant’s DNA "barcode" will help tell is if it is being illegally traded The technology will be used in a number of ways, including identifying the illegal ...
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