Plants of the Day

 Lecture 1 Exam

 Lecture 2 Exam

 Lecture 3 Exam

 Halloween Bot-Costumes

Images of "plants of the day" mentioned in lecture will be added here as they are covered in lecture. Extra credit will be provided for solving the question given for each plant (questions will be on the lecture exams).

 

Lecture 1 plants

 Sytsma collecting plants

Super Plant Collector

 

Who is the world record holder for the number of plant collections made - and how many did s/he make?

 

hints: it is NOT this person, and the person collected over 100,000 specimens

 baobab tree

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?

 

laurel

Laurus nobilis

laurel

Why is the Mediterranean basal angiosperm laurel forever linked with the Olympics? Hint: the image on the right is from Greek mythology and the shrub/tree laurel is evident to the left of that image.

 

 

Lecture 2 plants

 holoparasite

?

 

What holo-parasitic family is now included in the order Saxifragales?

 

Photo by Faisal I. Al-Dossary

 

Lecture 3 plants

 belladonnatook

hobbit

 

Atropa belladonna (Solanaceae)

and

Belladonna Took (Bilbo Baggins' mother)

 

 

In honor of the upcoming opening of "The Hobbit" . . .

"Belladonna" means "beautiful lady" . . . what is the connection between the poisonous atropa and the plant getting the name "beautiful lady"? Or, how or why do beautiful ladies use atropa?

Organisms of the (Holi-) day

Which three of these organisms do not fit on this list - and why?

Vaccinium macrocarpon, Meleagris gallopavo, Taxidea taxus, Cucurbita maxima, Gulo gulo, Dioscorea battata, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus

thanksgiving

 

 


Halloween Plant Costumes by Botany 400 Students

 

This could be you!
 

 

Halloween Plant Costumes by other Crazy Botanists

Dan Nickrent

 Sarracenia

Papyrus