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Plant Resin & Wax Photos
... Torchwood Family (Burseraceae) Tropical American incense trees in the torchwood family (Burseraceae). Left photo shows Protium copal (far left) and gumbo limbo (Bursera simaruba) at the ancient Maya city of Tikal ... principle source of fragrant copal incense used by the Maya of Guatemala highlands. Right photo shows a freshly cut turpentine tree or gumbo limbo (Bursera simaruba) on the island ...
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Lab Manual Exercise #10B
... Mantis Left: Can you spot the nesting rock ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus) in this photo? Right: Close-up view of the ptarmigan in left photo. ... californica. This interesting composite is endemic to San Diego County. Photo taken along the crest of the Laguna Mountains. An ambush bug ... A faint, transparent, dorsal fin is barely discernable in the photo. Click on the photograph to see this unusual insect on ...
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Biomes
... desert biome includes several different vegetation types or plant communities. Left: A saguaro woodland (Carnegiea gigantea) in the Sonoran Desert of ... contains tall trees draped with epiphytes and vines. In the left photo a large sea heart vine (Entada gigas) connects the limbs ... heart vines completely cover their support trees (center). The right photo shows how the rain forest is rapidly being cut ...
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Carnivorous Plants
... and after being touched. The left photo shows fully turgid leaves (pinnae) with all the leaflets (pinnules) fully extended for maximum light absorption. In the right photo the leaflets have folded up ... spot the five main compound leaf divisions (pinnae) that have closed up in the right photo? Bladderworts The only carnivorous plant with a true "trapdoor" is the remarkable bladderwort (Utricularia). ...
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Continental Drift & Plant Distribution
... . The Malaysian cycad Cycas circinalis. Left photo shows the "cone" of a female plant with modified leaves (sprophylls) bearing small ovules along their margins. Center photo shows a female plant with clusters of mature seeds atached to the sporophylls. Right photo shows the erect, pollen-bearing cone (strobilus) ...
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Stem & Root Anatomy
... . The woody (lignified) vascular tissue provides support and is often visible in dead cactus stems. Left: Giant saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) in northern Sonora, Mexico. The weight of this large cactus is ... the bizarre palm-boring beetle (Dinapate wrightii) shown at bottom of photo. An adult beetle is shown in the next photo. An adult palm-boring beetle (Dinapate wrightii) Read About The Palm ...
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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... Drunk Bay. They were collected along the beach and rocky shore shown in the above photo in approximately three hours. Drift seeds and fruits collected at Drunk Bay on the island ... sprouted fruits of the black mangrove and white mangrove are also dispersed by ocean currents. Left: Red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) with two viviparous (germinated) seedlings which have emerged from their fruits ...
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Arboretum Images 5
... red seeds of the African kafferboom coral tree (Erythrina caffra). The seeds in the above photo were collected at the Palomar College arboretum. See The Remarkable Coral Trees (Erythrina) See ... Australia, this species spreads readily by seed and becomes quite invasive in southern California. Left: Pink powder puff (Caliandra haematocephala), a beautiful tree native to Bolivia. Right: Sweet acacia ( ...
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Arboretum Images 6
... tree (Arbutus unedo). Aralia Family (Araliaceae) Two members of the aralia family (Araliaceae). Left. Queensland umbrella or octopus tree (Schefflera actinophylla). Right: Tupidanthus calyptratus with multiple ... and numerous spirally arranged stamens. The stamens have already fallen away in this photo, exposing the brown stalk (axis) of the receptacle. Right: Conelike receptacle bearing numerous ...
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Mr. Wolffia
... for more than thirty years. Now all of this material plus more than 2,300 photo images and illustrations are available on-line in Professor Armstrong's massive website called ... while others are pollinated by perching birds (passerines). See Article About Pollination Of Erythrina Flowers Left: Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park with the legendary naturalist Dr. Carl Sharsmith, authority on ...
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