Plants of the Day

Lecture 1 Exam

Lecture 2 Exam

Lecture 3 Exam

Halloween Bot-Costumes

Lecture 1 plants

Super Plant Collector   Who is the world record holder for the number of plant collections made - and how many did s/he make?   hint: it is not this person, and not necessarily someone collecting only in the tropics

Adansonia baobabs What is one of two main pollinators that David Baum photographed visiting these baobabs - mainly found in Madagascar and named after Michel Adanson?

Sassafras albidum sassafras Sassafras is forever linked with what great culinary tradition?

Lecture 2 plants

?   What holo-parasitic family is now included in the order Saxifragales?   Photo by Faisal I. Al-Dossary

Hura crepitans (Euphorbiaceae) This tropical tree is one of the most deadly sources for tropical arrow poisons. A number of other tropical plant families are the source for arrow poisons. Find one of these.

Lecture 3 plants

Eupatorium rugosum Asteraceae white snakeroot As the common name might suggest, this plant is highly poisonous. Humans typically are poisoned by drinking milk from cattle eating the plants. What famous person associated with a U.S. President is thought to have died from snakeroot?     http://www.missouriplants.com/Whiteopp/ Eupatorium_rugosum_plant.jpg

mystery palm This is the largest palm in the world and is also the largest glasshouse plant (in the palm house at Kew Royal Botanic Garden) What is the common name of this palm?

Halloween Plant Costumes by Botany 400 Students

Halloween Plant Costumes by other Crazy Botanists

Rafflesia Dan Nickrent	Sarracenia	Papyrus
Linnaeus 300 yrs old