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The Fabulous Plant Kingdom
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 3, 2022, 3:15 pm
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[center]THE TALLEST TREES IN THE 🌎 WORLD[/center]
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Meet the tallest trees in the world. These trees managed to be
the biggest with the passage of time because many of them are
hundreds of years old.
-Swamp gum
This tree inhabits naturally in the Southeast of Australia, in
zones around 3280 feet above sea level with frequent rains.
-Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
It is a very large tree, which can easily exceed 350 feet in
height. The highest recorded tree, the Hyperion is 389 feet.
Located in Redwood National Park, in California. It was
discovered in 2006 by hikers Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor.
The exact location of the Hyperion is not known, however.
🦉 Scientists are keeping the location of Hyperion secret
in order to protect it. 👍
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Coast redwoods grow mostly in California and California's
forests and state parks are believed to be home to the largest
trees in the world. Another redwood, Del Norte Titan, is located
in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park in California. This tree
is so large that if the tree were to be cut into planks, it
could build 120 houses.
-Douglas Fir
It is the third largest tree in the world. Its maximum height is
327 feet tall, which is equivalent to a building of more than 33
floors.
-Sitka spruce
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/>Sitka 🌲 spruce trees have have NO knots! They make
violins and guitars from them for that reason. It is the third
largest conifer in the world. Its name comes from the town of
Sitka, in Alaska.
-Giant sequoia
This tree can grow up to 314 feet in height. That is, twice the
height of the Roman Coliseum.
-Yellow Meranti
It is the highest tropical tree in the world.
-Manna gum
The highest specimen of this tree lives in the Evercreech
Reserve in Tasmania and measures 299 feet in height.
-Tasmanian Blue gum
Also known as Blue Eucalyptus or White Eucalyptus. This tree is
native to Southeast Australia.
-Australian Alpine Ash
It has a straight and gray trunk tree whose highest measured
specimen has a trunk diameter of 10 feet and 288 feet tall,
which makes it as tall as the Capitol in Washington DC.
-Tasmanian oak
It is also known as Australian oak. The tallest specimen of this
tree is called King Stringy, and it is, what a coincidence ...
in Tasmania.
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• Plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen during the
day, and absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide at night. They
release far more oxygen than they absorb.
• The origin of the word "tree" is "tre" from Old English.
"Forest" comes from the old French word "foresta" which meant
"woodland."
[color=green][size=18pt][b]• Two mature trees produce enough
oxygen to fulfill the annual oxygen needs of four
people.[/b][/size][/color]
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The secret lives of plants 🤠
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 4, 2022, 11:36 am
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Now, over a century later, the plant is confirmed to be back on
Vermont’s landscapes, thanks to a retired greenhouse man
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 9, 2022, 12:00 pm
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Jun 8 2022 By Ella Ruehsen
[center]Federally threatened orchid rediscovered in Vermont,
thanks to a smartphone app[/center]
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A small whorled pogonia blooms on Winooski Valley Park District
conservation land. Vermont Fish & Wildlife photo courtesy of
John Gange
SNIPPET:
This species is the only one of the three that’s historical,
meaning it went missing in Vermont for more than 25 years — or
in this case, for 120.
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Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 17, 2022, 3:51 pm
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[center]Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of
Grasses[/center]
August 10, 2022, 12:46 PM By David Coppedge
SNIPPETS:
The journal Science offers a special section devoted to grasses.
Bianca Lopez, Pamela J. Hines, and Caroline Ash introduce the
cover story with some startling facts about these “often
undervalued” plants. In “The unrecognized value of grass
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say,
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> Grasses are highly diverse, yet only six or seven grass
species provide most of the calories that humans consume. … In
addition to cultivated fields and pastures, grassy ecosystems
(both Poaceae and Alismatales) cover large swaths of the planet,
forming terrestrial grasslands and submarine meadows. Grasslands
create and stabilize fertile soil; store carbon; generate
oxygen; and provide animal habitat, building materials, and
food. Even so, these species and systems are often undervalued.
Land-use conversion and climate change pose threats, as do
climate change mitigation efforts that prioritize carbon stored
in trees over that stored in grasslands. Nevertheless, grasses
could offer solutions to many of our societal challenges, if
only we would fully recognize their diversity and value.
[Emphasis added.]
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Appreciating Grasslands
Here are a few points to increase our appreciation for the
12,000 known species of grasses.
Grasslands store about a third of the world’s terrestrial carbon
stocks.1
Most of us will have either eaten, stepped on, or burned a grass
within the past 24 hours.2
50 percent of the calories consumed by humans come from three
species of grass: wheat, rice, and maize.2
Meat, eggs, and dairy products come from animals that eat
grasses.2
Grasses are the predominant plants on all the continents except
for Antarctica.2
Not all grasses live on land. About 72 species in 4 families are
“seagrasses” that live in 🐠 water.3
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Seagrasses have adapted to live 🐟 underwater, where
light is limited, where salt and nutrients can be problematic,
and where soils can become highly toxic.3
Seagrass is the world’s only underwater flowering plant.4
Seagrass “meadows” are important carbon dioxide sinks that can
provide significant carbon sequestration yet are on the decline
due to human activity. Conservationists are considering ways to
help them recover.3
Seagrass meadows promote biodiversity for fish, reptiles,
crustaceans, echinoderms and other marine organisms like sea
cucumbers, clams, manatees, sea turtles, and crocodiles who use
them for food or shelter.3,4
Along with mangroves and coral reefs, seagrass meadows help
stabilize coastlines. They also reduce water acidity and purify
water from viruses, bacteria, and heavy metals, helping coral
reefs to flourish.3,4
Seagrass can be used as construction material, fertilizer, and
habitat for seafood farming. When cotton is scarce, it can be
used as an alternative fiber for clothing.4
The Smithsonian Ocean site adds additional praise for
seagrasses:
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> Seagrasses can form dense underwater meadows, some of which
are large enough to be seen from space. Although they often
receive little attention, they are one of the most productive
ecosystems in the world. Seagrasses provide shelter and food to
an incredibly diverse community of animals, from tiny
invertebrates to large fish, crabs, turtles, marine mammals and
birds.
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... ...
All grasses are angiosperms (flowering plants) in the monocot
clade, meaning their leaves display parallel venation and spring
from a single seed leaf (cotyledon). They comprise about 20
percent of 60,000 known species of monocots, so while all
grasses are monocots, the majority of monocots are not grasses,
but other beautiful and useful plants like orchids, lilies,
asparagus, and pineapples. The roots of grasses are fibrous,
making them good for binding soil and preventing wind erosion
while providing habitat for earthworms, moles, and gophers.
We’re all familiar with the term “grass roots” as a metaphor for
bottom-up popular movements. ... ...
Beneath this broadly conserved genome architecture lurks
extensive diversity, including variation in nucleotides
(single-nucleotide polymorphisms), gene structure, and even the
presence or absence of genes. The nucleotide differences between
two lines of Zea mays (maize) are greater than those between
humans and chimpanzees. Genes central for plant structure in
maize are missing in wheat and rice, and vice versa. In other
words, not all grasses have the same complement of genes, and
their morphology is altered accordingly. ... ...
Many refer cheerfully to “God’s green earth” when thinking of
natural beauty, and grasses are a big part of that glorious
world picture. Why should our planet be so blessed with these
marvelous plants that do so much for the biosphere? Grasses are
prime examples of the prior fitness of the universe for complex
life that Michael Denton has elucidated with such clarity and
passion in his Privileged Species series
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It is likely that humans and
other complex animals could not exist but for these abundant and
nutritious little plants that help bind the biosphere together.
Let us stand in awe at the grass beneath our feet.
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My 🍁🍂 Favorite Season 🤠
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 12, 2022, 1:26 pm
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[center]Autumn Last Year was quite Pretty
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This might be the world’s oldest tree
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 14, 2022, 10:57 am
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Otober 13, 2022
In Between Times
[center]This
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More news for caring humans (except you need to add about 4 to
8% to the BLS low balled inflation numbers 👉 SEE:
Greenspan gamed CPI formula
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The Beauty of a Small Moving Drop of Water
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 8, 2022, 11:05 am
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These Fragrant Flowers Attract Hummingbirds, Monarch
Butterflies, Bees, Bumblebees and other 🐞 Beneficial
Insects
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 24, 2023, 4:27 pm
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Swamp [glow=red,2,300]Red[/glow] Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
[glow=green,2,300]Grows[/glow] to 2-4 Ft
[glow=green,2,300]Spread[/glow] 2-3 Ft
Blooms June-October
Light Requirement: Sun, Part Shade
Soil Moisture: Medium, Wet
Soil Description: Clay, Mucky
Attracts: Monarchs, Native Bees, Bumblebees, Caterpillars,
Butterflies, Hummingbirds, Beneficial Insects
Fragrant Flowers: Yes
Deer Resistant: Yes
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Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 11, 2023, 6:22 pm
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October 5, 2023, 6:33 AM by [glow=teal,2,300]David
Coppedge[/glow]
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[center]Plant Evolution: [glow=blue,2,300]All Gaps and
Miracles[/glow][/center]
A major 2023 study by ten evolutionary biologists shows that the
fossil record of plants poses considerable challenges
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and
highlights attempted sleights of hand.
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The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 8, 2023, 5:41 pm
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November 6, 2023, 6:29 AM by [glow=teal,2,300]David
Coppedge[/glow]
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SNIPPET:
Wesley Smith has warned more than once against
anthropomorphizing plants and ascribing intelligence — even
personhood — to flowers and trees. But like responsive robots,
plants can have smarts programmed into them. “So sure,
investigate how plants interact with their environment,” he
advises. “But use proper, non-personal language.
[color=green]They are [glow=teal,2,300]plants[/glow].” Let’s do
that, and look at some of the superior programming that makes
plants look smart because their design is smart.
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🍃 Leaf 🍂 Recycling
Science Magazine notes that “leaf recycling is a two-step
process.” Leaves don’t just curl up and die on a cold day. That
algorithm would be too simplistic, and potentially harmful to
the tree if warm sunny days follow. Actually, two signaling
molecules —[glow=teal,2,300] strigolactone[/glow] and
[glow=green,2,300]ethylene[/glow] — can work independently to
begin the process of leaf senescence (pictured above), but
together, they work in [glow=green,2,300]synergy[/glow]. “This
multistep process probably preserves leaves when possible, only
carrying through to leaf senescence when the stress becomes too
much.” (Emphasis added.)
Nitrogen Fixing
Separating molecular nitrogen’s triple bond requires a lot of
energy and pressure when humans do it, but some plants do it
with ease, utilizing the capabilities of
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/>[glow=green,2,300]nitrogen-fixing bacteria[/glow]. These
bacteria have an [glow=green,2,300]enzyme called
nitrogenase[/glow] that so far has defied our attempts to
understand it or duplicate [glow=green,2,300][b]it[/glow][/b].
Even though legumes outsource the work, they regulate their
symbiotic partners’ activity depending on nitrogen availability
in the soil, according to researchers at Chapman University.
This does not require plants to be sentient. We are all familiar
with machines like thermostats, rheostats, and governors that
can adjust their work depending on environmental conditions.
Climbing
Some plants and animals produce tentacles (in plants, tendrils)
that can grab things. At Iowa State University, scientists are
attempting to create (so far with only partial success)
artificial tentacles that can wrap around delicate objects. The
tendrils in ivy and other climbing plants are touch-sensitive.
Contact changes the concentration of hormones in the tendril so
that growth is accelerated on the far side, producing curvature.
As a result, the tendril wraps around the object so that the
plant can anchor itself to something firm. Time-lapse photos of
ivy growing up a wall might look like the action of an
intelligent agent. We see from Iowa State’s biomimetic
experiments, though, that the intelligence is imposed by the
agent. It’s a matter of programming with the right materials.
Watching the Clock
Every living thing keeps time, and plants are no exception. In
fact, they have two clocks, says Duke University:
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