Berry Go Round #4!

You can read the fourth edition of the Berry Go Round here at Foothills Fancies. Spring inspired many interesting posts and plants theme posts are flowering through the blogosphere. Enjoy the latest photosynthetic news…

Les joies de l’informatique

Ah les joies de l’informatique… Par Chanson Plus Bifluorée.

Lizzards making a soup

Read the whole story at Pharyngula. A lizzard species introduced on a small island evolved a completely new organ to adapt to a rather radical diet change in only about thirty generations (introduction dates from 1971). Really cool evolution story to store. On their way they became shorter on leggs, have a bigger mouth though [...]

Take in global conversation

It’s above Expelled  being exposed for what it is, a shameful piece of typical fraudulent creationist propaganda. Greg Laden’s has an excellent piece about the case bringing the (cell) gap into a general public discussion. Maybe he’s right, and American people may eventually end up with a better understanding and knowledge than any other people worldwide as [...]

Panoramic of a mossy trunk

Okay, it’s moss times at Seeds Aside, so I give you this panorama… This might have been another game (with “how many moss species do you see here?”), but I can’t identify these so I won’t start up. If you want a good game, these seeds still need some guesses… :-)

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What are the two sexes of a plant moss?

That’s cool when requests coming here are direct questions. Eventually turning into posts of some sort…

Such a recent question was “what are the two sexes of a plant moss?”. Well, the two basic sex functions are male and female, as long as gametes can be differentiated (big gametes are defined as female, small ones as [...]

Berry Go Round is coming

The next edition will take place at Foothill fancies… Send your submissions before the 25th!

What use are herbaria?

If you really think this question is important, then go read this post at Catalogue of Organisms.

Geographical oddity

Confusing trivia. Did you know about Miami University? (there’s a great department of botany there, I found this when looking for a paper…).
So guess what?
#1. Miami University is located at Oxford.
#2. This Oxford is located in Ohio.
USA really are a world apart on their own… :-)

Amazonian plants blog

For those who read Brazilian Portugese, there is a good blog about Amazonian Brazilian plants to read, Raphael Serathiuk’s blog (but if don’t, you can always go for the pictures).