Plants of the Day

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).

What is the largest herbarium in the world?

How many plant specimens does it contain (rounded to the millions)?

What species has the largest leaves AND largest flowers in North America?

Hint: it is a "basal angiosperm"

Helleborus (helleborine) from the buttercup family was the first plant used in chemical warfare. How was helleborine used to conquer the Corninthian city of Kirrha?

Antarctica is home to only two flowering plant species. On the left is the Antarctic hairgrass and on the right is what species from the order Caryophyllales (common name OK)?

This succulent plant from South Africa is flowering in the UW Botany Desert House (top right corner in the picture above).

It has an unusual common name given on the label in the pot. What is the basis for this common name?

Artocarpus - breadfruit of the Moraceae - will be forever linked with the Mutiny on the Bounty and Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian. Breadfruit is seen on the deck of the Bounty in this scene where Captain Bligh is set adrift in a rowboat. Find out where the breadfruit came from, where it was being taken by the Bounty, and why.