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”

• chi flat iron

  
  Aquarium Plants - Barr Report — Authority: 143
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• Congratulations! — Six Word Saturday

  
  JIM'S LITTLE BLOG — Authority: 122
  Mrs. Jims pretty door prize—centerpiece [ large picture ] [ extra large ] (at her last garden club meeting ) - - - - - - - - TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell crocodile? GLENN : K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L TEACHER: No, thats wrong GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me ...
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• Macaranga bancana and spiderhunters

  
  Bird Ecology Study Group — Authority: 132
  A number of accounts of Macaranga bancana attracting sunbirds, bulbuls and other birds were posted earlier. These observatins were made at Ipoh’s Kledang-Sayong Forest Reserve in the Malaysian state of Perak by Dato’ Dr Amar-Singh HSS during his forays on 21st and 24th October 2008. There were three ...
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• Jatropha

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 136
  Botancal Name : Jatropha Curcas L. Family : Euphorbiaceae Subfamily : Crotonoideae Synonyms: – This genus is also known as: *Adenorhopium Rchb. *Aamanakku / Kaattaamanakku Tamil, India *Castiglionia Ruiz & Pav. *Collenucia Chiov. *Curcas Adans. *Jarak Indonesia *Jatropa Scop., orth. var. *Loureira Cav. ...
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• Green Scene: Invasive plants are becoming a larger problem

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 970
  We live surrounded by many trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals that arent from this area. It may seem like they belong here, but they dont. They arent the plants that Mother Nature originally intended for our region.
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• Caltha leptosepala var. leptosepala

  
  Botany Photo of the Day — Authority: 420
  White marsh-marigold or mountain marsh-marigold is an early bloomer on local mountains (this photograph is from June 26). Other plants in flower at the time on Mt. Cheam included violets, Erythronium grandiflorum , Phlox diffusa , Potentilla flabellifolia and Saxifraga oppositifolia . In British Columbia, ...
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• The march of the cyclamen | Noel Kingsbury

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Shady, wintry spots will soon be full of these diminutive flowers, from deepest purple to pristine white Hardy cyclamen used to be the preserve of enthusiasts who swapped plants and seed with elaborate collectors numbers and went on seed-collecting trips to Turkey. But now cyclamen have crept out of the cold frames ...
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• Dutch Exodus: Spyker relocating vehicle assembly to the UK

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 786
  Filed under: Performance , Plants/Manufacturing , UK , MISC 2010 Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder - Click above for a high-res image gallery In these tough times automakers are doing everything they can to cut costs. For Spyker, that means moving its vehicle assembly from its home country of the Netherlands ...
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• “The secret relationship between humans and dirt”

  
  Nature's Crusaders — Authority: 123
  DIRT! The Movie The secret story of humans living dirt Join us at a theater  near you on December 4, 2009 Why Dirt? Dirt feeds us and gives us shelter. Dirt holds and cleans our water. Dirt heals us and makes us beautiful. Dirt regulates the earth’s climate. Dirt is the ultimate natural ...
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• Berries, goldfish, and returning from travels - balcony surprises

  
  Balcony Garden Dreaming — Authority: 92
  When you come back from three months of travel, how do you expect your balcony garden to look?Well, I returned last week, and this is what I found:Boysenberries. They were probably Blossoming while I explored fairytale Copenhagen, setting fruit as I nestled into my friends apartment in Venice, and ripening as I gave ...
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• Pawpaw

  
  You Grow Girl: The Dirt — Authority: 132
  Until very recently, pawpaws have been one of those mythical fruits that I’ve known about for ages, but have never seen in person. Until just a few years ago I was under the mistaken impression that they are native to the Southeastern United States, but not available here. Chalk it up to geographical [...]
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• Radioactive waste contaminating water supply

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 463
  Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released today.
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• Photo From You: Insect Identification

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 128
  This comment and photo were emailed to us on the blog a few days ago. “My friend was out on the Katy prarie the other day and left her window down. Upon her return to the vehicle, she discovered nearly 100 of these little guys swarming inside her Tahoe. Can you please tell me what they are?” The insect in ...
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• Plants vs. Zombies nominated for PC Game of the Year

  
  Icrontic Gaming — Authority: 475
  Popcaps casual hit Plants vs. Zombies has been nominated for PC Game of the Year at the Spike TV Video Game Awards for 2009.
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• Beautiful flowers or common weeds? Cathedral bells

  
  Ewa in the Garden — Authority: 100
  This beautiful flowers belong to cathedral bells (Cobaea scandens) - perennial climber in different continents, annual in Poland. In some countries its beauty is admired and wanted, in other you may find it on the list of common weeds (New Zealand). Pure relativity.
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• Welcome to the Party

  
  Radioblog — Authority: 435
  Posted by Tony Bielaczyc I get asked about native plants a lot by people who are thinking of changing the plant palette or design of the their gardens. Just last night, I was talking with neighbors in my new building about the beds that surround the building: ditching this, moving that, when one person said I ...
  16 hours ago

• Mods - ban user?

  
  Aquarium Plants - Barr Report — Authority: 143
  Hi folks, I have been busy deleting spam threads from user nopq475 the last couple of days... Can you please help me out and check the user?
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• Rainy day & a xeric garden

  
  Digging — Authority: 125
  Golden barrel cactus, ‘Angelina’ sedum, and crepe myrtle leafA steady rain patters outside, and I couldn’t be happier about it. We still desperately need rain, so no complaints—let it pour!But instead of showing a rain-washed garden (which would mean going outside in it), I’m using pics from a recent sunny ...
  17 hours ago

• Thanksgiving Food Sources Can Be Tracked Online

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 729
  From Western Illinois University: Once upon a time, in order to trace the path of a meal from your table to the source, you may only have had to take a short jaunt to a nearby field. But in these ...
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• Cousins of Prehistoric Supercrocodile Inhabit Lost World of Sahara

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  Paleontologist Paul Sereno with his Saharan discoveries — SuperCroc, BoarCroc (upper right), PancakeCroc (lower right), RatCroc, DogCroc and DuckCroc.A suite of five ancient crocs, including one with teeth like boar tusks and another with a snout like a duck’s bill, have been discovered in the Sahara by National ...
  17 hours ago

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