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DuneCraft Windowsill Greenhouses - Venus Fly Trap
Price : $14.99 $9.89
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: - Planting mixture
- Natural gravel
- Natural stones
- Instructions and information sheet
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Grow your own collection of feared and famous meat eating plants. This kit features the infamous Venus Fly Trap. Watch these fascinating plants grow from harmless seeds into vicious bug-eating monsters. The leaves of a Venus Fly Trap are covered with fine hairs. When an insect lands on the plant, the pressure on these hairs causes the jaw-like foliage to snap closed, trapping the insect inside. Make your own authentic bog with the included peat plating mix, blue swamp rocks and companionable Bog Buddy. With proper care, this rare and unusual collection of carnivorous plants will flourish for years in the specially designed terrarium. Includes growing greenhouse, Venus Fly Trap seed, Blue Swamp Rocks, Bog Buddy, Planting mixture, instruction and information sheet.
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Micro-terrariums 2"x3.9"x5.2"-dusty Desert Cacti
Price : $2.70
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: - Four types of cacti seed
- last for years
- fascinating plants
- Complete kit includes micro terrarium, cacti mix seed disk, and premium sprouting mixture
- Ages 4+
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The included cacti will sprout quickly and last for years! There are four types of cacti seed in this deluxe kit, including the Giant Saguaro, Golden Barrel, Organ Pipe Cactus, and the Fishhook Barrel Cactus! These fascinating plants were introduced to the European world by Christopher Columbus and are still used today for food, drink, medicine, sealant, building materials, and toys. Your Dusty Desert Cacti will sprout in about 5 days and will last for years in the included terrarium! Safe for ages 4 and up!
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DuneCraft Dome Terrariums Desert Biodome
Price : $24.99 $13.90
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: - Color decals
- Decorative gravel
- Fun accessories
- Decorative plant stakes
- Seeds Included
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Each Complete Kit Includes:Sprouting and Growing Dome Cacti Seed Pack Succulent Seed Pack Natural Gravel Natural Sand Natural Stones Planting Mixture 3 Color Plant Stakes 3 Color Decals Instructions and Information Booklet
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Dune Craft, Strange Plant Collection
Price : $24.99 $17.98
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: - Color decals
- Decorative gravel
- Fun accessories
- Decorative plant stakes
- Seeds Included
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Grow four kinds of freaky flora within a germination dome! The carnivore plant actually eats flies and small insects. Eyeball flowers protrude from the stems of a South American plant, while a specimen from Africa grows colorful flowers that look like brains. Perhaps the craziest of all, the space plant will actually move its branches and leaves when it's touched. Includes growing dome, seed packs, plant stakes, photo decals, decorative gravel, germination mix and complete instructions.
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The Fairy Triad
Price : $24.99 $15.21
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: - Dome Terrarium Kits sprout quickly, grow plentifully, and are sure to please anyone! They contain mu
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Grow your own enchanted fairy garden. This charming terrarium contains magical plants for fairies and those who believe in them! Garden contains four color seed packets: red and blue lobelia, clover, evening star and thyme; plus a bag of fairy planting mixture, bag of fairy dust, fairy, pinwheel, two fairy bells and string, four fairy plant stakes, rainbow fairy gravel, sprouting and growing terrarium, perlite drainage pellets, and growing and care instructions.
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Question : How to get started in botany?
I really like botany and I want to learn as much as I can about it. I don't really know where to start though. I can't take any classes so I'll be teaching myself with books. But besides reading books what else can I do to learn about botany?
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I'd start with the wikipedia article on Botany. The article will give you a very sketch-like/general overview, and you can click into things you're more interested in.Also, the "external links" at the bottom of, not only the general botany page, but other pages will provide good reading material! I love wikipedia. Just keep in mind that sometimes there are inaccuracies, but for the most part I find lots of accurate, well-written info on there!Hope that helps :)
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Question : what's the difference between horticulture and botany?
I'm not sure whether to get a degree in horticulture or in botany. a little help? also, for each, which classes should I take in high school if I wanna major it in college?
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'Botanists' are like plant scientist that may become notable through their fame and fortune expertise in the "scientific study of plant life", whereas 'Horticulturists' are like engineers that make a living by their knowledge about "cultivating plants". Horticulturists can work in industry, government or educational institutions or private collections. They can be cropping systems engineers, wholesale or retail business managers, propagators and tissue culture specialists (fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, and turf), crop inspectors, crop production advisers, extension specialists, plant breeders, research scientists, and of course, teachers.Disciplines which complement horticulture include biology, botany, entomology, chemistry, mathematics, genetics, physiology, statistics, computer science, and communications, garden design, planting design.Subdisciplines of botany:Agronomy — Application of plant science to crop productionBryology — Mosses, liverworts, and hornwortsEconomic botany — Study of plants of economic use or valueEthnobotany — Relationship between humans and plantsForestry — Forest management and related studiesHorticulture — Cultivated plantsLichenology — The study of lichensPaleobotany — Fossil plantsPalynology — Pollen and sporesPhycology — AlgaePhytochemistry — Plant secondary chemistry and chemical processesPhytopathology — Plant diseasesPlant anatomy — Cell and tissue structurePlant ecology — Role of plants in the environmentPlant genetics — Genetic inheritance in plantsPlant morphology — Structure and life cyclesPlant physiology — Life functions of plantsPlant systematics — Classification and naming of plants
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Question : Is there any place to see good botany prints on the internet?
I'm trying to find a good, bigger thn thumbnail picture of aconite/wolfsbane from one of those old botany books. I've tried google and yahoo, but everything is thumbnail sized, I've found.
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Some examples for Aconitumhttp://www.digibib.tu-bs.de/view_page.php?max_page=194&minpage=1&url=http://bib1lp1.rz.tu-bs .de/docportal/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/DocPortal_derivate_00002022&suffix=jpg&derivate_id=2022&pa ge=96This site is a digital library for copper engravings of ( medicinal ) plants ( It`s a German site, but plant names > Links are scientific ones )http://www.digibib.tu-bs.de/start.php?suffix=jpg&maxpage=194&derivate_id=2022http://www.sammlungen. hu-berlin.de/dokumente/19189/http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/codicon/Blatt_bsb00001428,48v.html
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Question : Botany....?
Which program would botany fall under in a college setting??
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I did my Master's degree in botany. At my university (Univ. of Georgia in the U.S.), the Botany Department was in the Plant Sciences Division in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. That is true at a lot of the large public universities that have agriculture schools but you usually have a choice of a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture depending on what your specialization is. At other schools it is usually placed in the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Biological Sciences.
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Question : How did botany adn astonomy go had in hand in the Middle Ages?
On page 372 of The Eye of the Lynx, it says that Cesi wrote Galileo about his botanical research. And that “those, of course, were the days in which botany and astronomy went intensely hand in hand.” What does he exactly mean by this? Did they rely on one another or just coincide? I was just wondering how exactly they made this work out. I mean how did they consider that both did in fact have an effect on or with one another?
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Stonehenge is an observatory. Think this way - the farmers use the stars to decide when to plant and when to reap.Thus, you have astronomy & botany, depending upon each other.
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Question : What subject should I write my Botany research paper on?
I have this one last pesky graduation requirement before I get my Bachelor's degree; a Botany course. It's a freshmen-level course in which I have to write a five-page research paper on something related to plants and their preservation or their use in our lives (i.e. medicinally). But I have no idea what to write on. I don't really have an interest in Botany so I would want to write on something somewhat interesting, otherwise this project will get really boring. So, any suggestions?
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Five pages can be filled in a relatively short period of time, so try to narrow your topic down to something very specific. Here are some ideas:Find out the name of an endangered/threatened species near where you live and find out what's being done to protect it. You can probably get a list by googling "threatened and endangered plants + (name of your state)" or visiting your state's website and looking under forestry, natural resources, or natural heritage program.Find out what invasive species are around you and choose one to research in detail (what it looks like, how/when it came to your area, why it's a problem, what's being done to control it). You can google "invasive plants + (name of your state)" for a list.Find a pest species (insects, fungus, etc.) which is affecting native plants in your area and research it in more detail.Go green - find a way plants can be used to help the environment - rain gardens to store rainwater and/or runoff, how plants are used to treat pollution, how trees can provide cooling in the summer (through evapotranspiration) and how they prevent loss of heat in the winter (as windbreaks).Adaptations of carnivorous plants - the different mechanisms they use to capture their prey (pitcher plants, sundews, bladderwort, butterwort, Nepenthes/Monkey cups, cobra lily, Venus' fly traps, etc.).You could also try relating the paper to your major - say if you're a computer major, you could write how GPS and GIS programs are used to map plant distributions and population densities as a way to help with their conservation. If you're an art major, you could write about plant-based pigments for dying fabrics, or compare different wood characteristics for carving. A music major? How about the use of different woods to make musical instruments? If you can relate your project to something in which you ARE interested, you'll get a lot more out of your project, and it'll seem a lot less boring.Just some ideas.
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Question : What is the best way to get started with botany?
I know pretty much nothing about growing plants, plant taxonomy, herbs, growing techniques etc etc. I would really like to understand a lot of this, since I hear so much about the benefits of growing plants in one's home. What should I do to get a good beginning understanding of botany?
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You'd be better to do research into horticulture not botany. In it's most traditional sense, Botany is the study of describing plant form and function, there will be little information about how to apply those concepts to growing. The American Horticultural Society makes several excellent books that are very comprehensive yet easy to understand. They're pretty expensive (~$100/book) so I would try to find them at the library. Actually, there should be a lot of good books the library anyways. Other than that, visit the nursery and talk to the people that work there. They're usually full of great information
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Question : botany????????????????????????????
is botany hard?
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I'm not sure if you're talking about botany as a major or botany as a class so you might want to clarify next time you ask a similar question. But if you are thinking of majoring in botany then yes you will need to be interested in plants. You should get used to looking at microscopic slides of plant tissues and identifying things on the slides. I've taken a botany class recently and while i went in not really interested in plants, i came out of it with a new understanding for it. I had to do a lot of memorization especially in the beginning when we went over the structure of plants. We had to remember how the root and stem of plants look in cross section and how to differentiate between monocots and dicots. Also we spent a lot of time looking at microscope slides. And then it was tedious trying to remember the names for different structures in the gametophyte and sporophyte generation of gymnosperms and angiosperms. I'm currently taking zoology and i can say that one difference between studying plants and animals is that for animals, there is a lot of comparison going on and its more conceptual. For plants, its more about being able to memorize things. It's a lot easier to study for botany than zoology for me.
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Question : What magnification loupe do i need for botany?
I am new to botany, and am ready to buy a loupe. I'm looking at the Bausch and Lomb Hastings loupes. I'm not sure what magnification i will need. They come in 7X, 10X, 14X, and 20X. What is a the most useful magnification for general botany?
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Most identification keys are written for characteristics that should be able to be seen with 10X magnification. So that would be a place to start. I sometimes put specimens under a microscope to see better detail, and that's usually 15X (for texture of sed coats and other tiny objects I sometimes go up to the higher power, 30X. Either 10X or 14X would be sufficient to identify most species.. Sometimes going to a higher magnificationis a personal preference or is based on the quality of the user's vision.For anything that's not readily visible under the 10X or 14X, you might want to bring a portion of that specimen back to the lab and look at it under a microscope if necessary (and you have permission to collect at that location).
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Question : What schools have good botany programs?
I am currently a biology major but my school doesn't offer a concentration in botany, just curious where I would be looking.
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Search on Google.com for the Botany (Botanical ?) Society of America.
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