Bottlebrush Research Papers

The first of a series of eight talks as part of Lan Su in Bloom will be given by Varco. This talk will focus on the 1000 year history of many plants at Lan Su that were originally planted due to their significance as symbols and how those plants have been used as botanical motifs throughout the arts in China.

The banksia has adaptations to protect it self from the harsh Australian environment. The main adaptations the banksia has is in the defence of bush fires over half of the banksia population are killed by bush fires but the banksia is able to grow quickly from seed. The fire stimulates the opening of seed-bearing follicles and the germination of seed in the soil. Some other Banksia survive because of their very think bark that protects the trunk from burning. The sweeping of the trunk protects the roots and stores starch that can be used incase photosynthesis cant happen. Another feature of the Banksia is the proteoid roots that form clusters of closely spaced can grow in soil that is very low in nutrients, floral

The Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub have a variety of different plant species, from Torrey Pine to Cacti. They each contain some helpful adaptations that have resulted from directional selection over

Budgies come in different sizes depending on where they live. English Budgies are two to three times

Do to the cold climate most plants are tiny ground cover plants, which grow and reproduce with not a lot of haste. They shield themselves from the cold and wind by hugging close to the ground. Some of

Canadian Thistle are perennials that reproduce from their short spread out root system and seeds, they have a single stalk that branches out at the top where the purple/pink flowers at the top of the bulbs, with spiky leaves going up the plant. Can grow to be 1 to 3 feet tall

The family Droseraceae is a cosmopolitan species that is found on all of the continents with the exception of Antarctica. This is likely the most diverse carnivorous plant family and has 150-160 species. 11 of these species are found in the United States (Webb D. 2008). This family is usually found as an herb or rarely a small shrub. The leaves of this family are alternate or whorled. This family has simple leaves, with the lamina with glandular hairs which trap insects, or have bristles that cause the lamina to close. The stipules may be present or absent. The Stamens are as many as there are petals. The stamens may be distinct, or connate at the base. The anthers are dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits; pollen grains in

The stem seems watery, and when picked the entire plant will wilt quickly. There are multiple branches per plant. Because of this, and the fact that the plant can grow up to 5 feet high, it can have a bush like appearance. The stem is so watery because this plant tends to grow in moist areas, such as along streambanks.

Now talking about plants they widely differs from desert and rainforest settings. In the desert the plants are very sparse from

By itself it is about 1.5 to 2.5 feet tall and very fuzzy or grassy at the top. It has a fuzzy stem and sometimes can look like a cattail. In a group it looks like normal tall grass, but when you get close up, you can see that it is only grassy at the top. It spreads very quickly and has a clumping habitat. This is how you identify Medusahead.

The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, New Vernon, NJ, has different types of species and habitats. We started the observation from the shorter plants. First of all, the tour lady introduced poison ivy plants to us. She mentioned that if you see a hair rope plant, there is high probability that it could be a poison ivy. There were less short plants farther away from the water. There could be several reasons that the shorter plants are near or/and above the water. First, watery soil can only support shorter and less heavy plants, because near water the soil is too soft. Second, New Jersey has many deer and the deers’ predators are removed from the area because they cannot coexist with humans. Shorter plants are usually eaten by deer. The

Many plants in the blue mountains which surrounds the Three Sisters are found no where else in the world because of the unique temperature, climate, rugged landscape and

The bristlecone pine is known to grow in the White Mountains of eastern California. In that area conditions are not most desirable and ideal for plants to grow, however the bristlecone has managed to withstand the harsh conditions and surpass the hands of time. The White Mountains are an area that experiences short summers with a season for growing only being measured at several weeks. These mountains also adhere to strong dry winds that travel against rocky souls. These type of conditions cause any rain water that may fall to either drain off to fast for the plant to absorb or the water to just evaporate (Matthews, M). With such harsh conditions it is amazing that the bristlecone is still standing as the oldest living organism, unless it is because of these harsh conditions that the tree has such longevity.

A distinctive difference between crow’s claw cactus and other plants is that cacti have stems which function as leaves. Because cacti do not have leaves, stems contain main photosynthetic organs, areoles, and water storage tissues. In addition, stems are coated with a cuticle, a waxy layer that prevents water loss. A possible hypothesis as to why cacti, specifically the ferocactus latispinus, have stems rather than leaves relates to the climate in which cacti grow; environments in which cacti grow in are relatively hot and dry, with little

Kaya et al. (2007) have recently shown the trichomes are widespread in the Labiatae, while they differ significantly in their morphology and dimensions. The studied species had two types of capitate trichomes. The main difference of these trichomes was stalk length. Metcalfe and Chalk, (1950) stated that capitate trichomes are very common in Nepeta genus and three types of them were recorded in several species of Nepeta. The capitate trichomes of N. congesta var. congesta, N. racemosa differed in both stalk and head cells number, and three kinds were existed (Kaya et al., 2007; Bourett et al., 1994). Number of each type varied between the studied species and as seen in fig.1, this character can use as a significant feature in taxonomy of the genus. However, capitate trichomes were the prominent type of glandular hairs in all of the studied species and other type of glandular types distributed between them. This status was reported from different species. For instance, Marin et al., (2006) observed that in Marrobium vulgare and Rosmarinus officinalis, these hairs were densely distributed, but the peltate type were scattered among them.