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Goosefoot Family
... the penis is cut in a similar way, exposing the head of the penis.] The seeds have fallen out of the empty cup (C). The large number of seeds in each of the thousands of fruits ... the amino acid lysine. In addition, these South American plants flourish in arid lands and are promising cultivated food crops for other regions of the world ...
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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle, Charles Darwin championed the idea of drift seeds and fruits colonizing distant islands, particularly isolated volcanic islands which have never been connected to the mainland. Darwin studied the ...
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WAYNE'S WORD STAFF
... the monitor, making them difficult to read. The downside of this change is that printed pages may be missing a few letters at the end of each sentence. The only way to get around ... the revision Update at the bottom of the Wayne's Word home page or look it up in the Index Alsomitra macrocarpa has the largest wingspan of any flying seed in the world ...
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Plant Fibers
... the local rain forest. The man makes two horizontal cuts around the trunk and then slices vertically between the cuts. He peels away the rough out bark, and then peels off the inner layer between the sapwood and the ... the leaves of a banana species (Musa textilis) which is native to the Philippines. The leaf fibers make some of the finest natural ropes in the world ...
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Lab Manual Exercise # 1a
... the volume of a plant cell. For this reason, the chloroplasts, nucleus and other organelles are displaced to the periphery of the cytoplasm (around the ... be toxic to humans. The primary reason that wolffia (world's smallest flowering ... fruits. See Amyloplasts In Cells Of Potato Tuber Underground Vegetables That Store Starch Centrioles Nonmembrane-bound organelles that occur in pairs just outside the ...
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Vegetative Terminology (Part 1)
... the labels. Aerial roots of the strangler fig (Ficus citrifolia) wrapped around the trunk and limbs of a swamp tree called "wing-nut" (Pterocarpus officinalis) on the island of Dominica. The ... The unusual, top-shaped fruit of tea mangrove (below red circle) is the size of a onion and contains one of the largest seeds in the world (excluding palms). It floats with the ...
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Fruit Identification Outline
... the calyx tightly enwraps the one-seeded achene and is persistent around the fruit as an anthocarp. The calyx base plus the enclosed seed-bearing achene is the unit of dispersal. In some members of the Nyctaginaceae, the ...
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Flower Terminology (Part 1)
... the single, erect stamen and three reflexed sepals. Numerous spherical pollen grains are visible around the anther. The sepals serve as pontoons that keep the stamen and pollen above the ...
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The World of Gourds
... Scallop (Cucurbita pepo). The World's Largest Fruit The Gourd Family (Cucurbitaceae) includes hundreds of species of vines bearing coiled, climbing tendrils and some of the most unusual fruits in the world. The total number of ... . ficifolia). Unlike the squashes and pumpkins, it is a perennial vine that thrives at higher elevations (above 3,000 feet or 1000 m). It is common around Quito, Ecuador, ...
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Devils Claws
... that attach to the feet and legs of large animals, and include some of the largest hitchhiker fruits in the world. Devil's claws (Proboscidea louisianica) hitchhiking on a shoe. The devil's claw ... the first baskets made by the Pimas were woven entirely of willow or cottonwood, but the sharp sand around the cooking fire soon cut out the stitches on the surface exposed to the ground, especially if the ...
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