Plants not only move, they dance: Award winning La Bloomba!

In memoriam:
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/williamoliverbright.html

Flowering Plants with Enclosed Seeds: Angiosperms

Structure and Function

One question arises on the wind pollination... Did it get confused with seed dispersal? See the films below for more ideas.

Fertilization
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पत्तियां-फूल संयंत्रों के साथ संलग्न बीज: angiosperms ढांचे और कार्य

A Peaceful Video on Flowers and Fruits for science classes.

Here's a link to a video on fruits and flowers. It might be useful for starting a class on flower structure, economic botany, or science and art. I am posting it because it is beautiful and I enjoyed it. One of our readers forwarded the link. It was accessed on 10-24-09. I may add more commentary at a later date but for now have just posted it for you to enjoy. (Note: Always verify the links, in case something changes since I post them.)

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=886d05b369&view=att&th=124898509d95a421&attid=0.1&disp=attd&zw

Note: "Nuts," are only identified as, "nuts," rather than as a specific type of nut.

Flower Parts - Plant Anatomy

(http://flowersintheclassroom.com)
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Nathaniel Hawthorne and You: floral Displays, beautiful and unusual Trees at Leamington Spa

Overlapping humanities and science is a way to get more students interested in science. A stroll through Leamington Spa, or view its gardens on-line, for example, and you will share something with Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Our Old Home, by Nathaniel Hawthorne describes, in a section on Leamington Spa, the gardens and their beauty. Students interested in literature, or especially in Hawthorne, may find a connection to science through the gardens of Leamington.

A stroll through gardens in your own vicinity might encourage students to write, as Hawthorne did of the gardens of Leamington Spa, of their beauty. By writing, a student can educate others as to the beauty of gardens and of nature in general, and this, in turn, may contribute to the sustainability of the Earth.



(c) 2008 J S Shipman

Learn the Plants in the Lily Family

The Connecticut Botanical Society has a website where you can look at several plants in the same family. Try it out by clicking these words, which will bring you to their link.

By the way, this is an example of a website that could be linked to EOL (see earlier post on EOL), if they haven't already been linked.

You might like to read the Connecticut Botanical Society's statement on collecting plants.

You can read more about the Connecticut Botanical Society's web site here: Read more...

Field Trip up Mount Fuji

"I had a good excursion to halfway up or 5th step
(2,400m above sea level) of Mt. Fuji (3,700m above
sea level) in order to watch alpine wild flowers
together with 16 members of the society of KATSURA
on August 21, 2008 by bus. you can see a photograph
of them in an attached file.

"We had very fine weather around Mt.Fuji on August
21, 2008. You can see photographs of far Mt. Fuji
and close Mt. Fuji in the attached files [Please click links below.].

"We watched 30 species of alpine wild flowers.
Especially, I will show you the photograph
of Monotropa hypopithys L in an attached file[Please click links below. ]."

Monotropa

Far Mt. Fuji

Close Mt.Fuji

Members of KATSURA

Respectfully submitted,

SAITOH MITSUO
The Society of Practical Education in Biology
2640-5,Kawaguchi,Hachioji,Tokyo,193-0801,Japan
Saitoh Institute for Biology Education
Tel&Fax:+81-42-654-2474
E-mail:rxp04450@nifty.com
http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/jissen/
http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/jissen/english.htm