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Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
True lilies are native to the Northern Hemisphere in both the New and Old Worlds. They have been extensively cultivated as ornamental flowering plants.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Liliales, Liliaceae
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Norfolk Southern's 64E sports a true heritage unit as it passes 13th Street in Manville. A Southern Pacific, number 6195 passes the camera.
01-09-2012, Bijenpop Venray
Photo © Patrick Joosten (www.patrickjoosten.nl). All rights reserved. This photo may not be republished, copied, printed or used in any way without written consent and creditline.
This is Gene Kranz the Flight Director for the Apollo Missions ( 11 that went to the moon ) and the one made into a Movie Apollo 13. Ed Harris played Gene. I met him in the airport at, where else, Houston. I recognized the crew cut and his face. He still looks like the same guy ! What a great guy to talk to. I think I was the only one to recognize him
First LO using the Love, Elsie collection. I have so much fun doing it and love love love this colors ! It's very simple, but i like it this way...