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Book illustrated by Dobbie, H. B. (Herbert Boucher), 1852–1940. Published in Auckland, New Zealand, Dobbie, H. B, 1880. www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/165179
Northwest students participate in a botany lab class taught by Lisa Stobbe, Sept. 11, 2017. The Northwest campus is designated as the Missouri state arboretum, which promotes the study and proper care of trees. (Photo by Todd Weddle | Northwest Missouri State University)
Ellendale, Tasmania
The pasture is lush because there's been a fair bit of rain and no cattle grazing. The owner will take hay off the property before I take it over.
I don't come across this place often (because it's not the most direct path to anywhere), but it's so serene. It's also the only body of water we have on campus (although the lake is a 20 min walk east), which makes me love it even more.
Try to tear your eyes away from that fine specimen of man in orange and check out that Easter Redbud. Now you know this Redbud is a legume because to the little dangling peapod hanging off the branch. These little pods will fall to the ground, the shell will decay and there will be a sweet little Eastern Redbud seed ready for propigation... self-propigation that is. Hello, Seed Dispersal. Knowing that this guy is a legume, you know that this guy has Rhizomuim and Root Nodules down below working hard to convert atmospheric nitrogen into usable nitrogen. Eastern Redbud is also an excellent example of a Cauliflory, which everybody knows means that flowers grow straight out of the stem. The Cauliflory status help with the accessibility of these flowers on the trunks and limbs of trees. This can be an important factor in why pollinators are attracted to them. This beautiful Diacot has dark brown twigs and is abundantly spotted with lighter lenticils. Lenticils are the the small spots or lines (depending on width of the branch) on the surface of the stem that allows for the exchange of gases. Muy bonita.
label detail - distracted
- playing with an inherited early twentieth-century brass microscope + accompanying slides
From left to right: Moisés Mendoza (a botanist form the Museo Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado in Santa Cruz), Daniel Santamaria (a botanist from the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad in Costa Rica), and Fanol (our trusty driver). Here we are in a cactus-dominated forest between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.