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RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
August 16, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Rhythm! Kichi! Class is going to be GREAT this semester! [dances around happily] She gave us a list of 117 plants to learn - HAH! Make it 200! I'm ecstatic!

And I've had too much coffee! lol. I'm drinking a beer now and will be on chat.
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RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
August 19, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Not a trick of perspective. That she-bitch was just as round as the hose, and deserved to be on the business-end of an S-Mart boomstick. Scared the shit out of me when I looked up.

Next time Rhythm talks about "monsters" in the South, remember this and realize that I'm only in NC. The further south you go, the bigger things get.

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RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
August 20, 2011 at 6:01 am
(August 16, 2011 at 8:50 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Rhythm! Kichi! Class is going to be GREAT this semester! [dances around happily] She gave us a list of 117 plants to learn - HAH! Make it 200! I'm ecstatic!

And I've had too much coffee! lol. I'm drinking a beer now and will be on chat.

Which Plants??

As for the mega she-Bitch...

Yes you start to look , then get scared, then get angry, then kill..... spoken like a true Hortie!!
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RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
August 20, 2011 at 6:15 am
I'll like to skip all the steps at the beginning and go straight to kill. I'm a scorched earth kinda guy.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
August 21, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Playing in the Blue Ridge Mountains:

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RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
September 12, 2011 at 1:05 pm
One of the trees we're learning about in my Plant ID course:

Taxodium distichum: Bald Cypress

One of the south's most beautiful trees, I think.

The foliage is feathery, spiraling around the stems, and it has really interesting looking seeds that have already come out on the tree we have on school grounds.
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They tend to live in swamps, and as they age they put out "buttresses" at the bottom for stability

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And unlike most of the others in its family, it's actually deciduous (hence the name "bald") and looks rather beautiful in the fall

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They grow into such odd shapes sometimes

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September 12, 2011 at 1:16 pm
I love Cypress. Pinophyta are the largest carbon sink on the planet, they've been around for about 300 million years and benefited greatly from the Permian-Triassic extinction event (in which 83% of all genera went extinct). Making it through the "Mother of All Extinction Events" is an impressive feat. Real survivors.
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RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
September 13, 2011 at 3:52 am
Known also as 'Swamp Cypress' here.

They ARE beautiful...for a myriad of reasons. Big Grin
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RE: The Catch-All Botany Thread
September 14, 2011 at 10:49 am
Botany photo of the day:

Paepalanthus stellatus

Quote:Paepalanthus stellatus is found only in open savannas dominated by grass in small areas of Goiás.

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September 14, 2011 at 10:53 am (This post was last modified: September 14, 2011 at 11:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I love that configuration. Haemanthus Multiforus is similar (and very easy to grow).

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I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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