Adjusting to a new job while getting a root canal isn’t the best situation for posting on time. For whoever reads this, I’m sorry. Here it is, the best news from the last two weeks for all you plant lovers:
Web-based resource resolves confusion over plant names, for those times when one source claims a different name than the next unsure of what the correct binomial name of the species you are working with is go to the Taxonomic Name Resolution Service.
Stories in local papers about people gardening are usually boring, and repetitive. This one isn’t. A young group of male gardeners are chipping out a business for themselves by getting their neighbors and community into edible landscaping.
Endangered plant hikes seem like a bad idea for the plant, but an excellent way to bring awareness…maybe. Not sure how I feel about showing people things that are on the brink of extinction. All that said, I would totally go on the hike.
Plant art: Vietnam war images, photosynthesized.
And the Science Daily Links:
How hidden flower features are crucial for bees
Hawkmoths evaluate nectar potential by humidity emitted from flower
Physics and Botany, a leap in artificial photosynthesis production
