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Comment on About me by Paula Kuitenbrouwerpau

Paula Kuitenbrouwerpau — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:33:56 +0000

Seedsaside, I post this comment so that I can ‘Hello’ and I am able to click ‘Notify me of new posts via email’. Looking forward to read about your study.

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susannah — Fri, 17 May 2013 03:09:44 +0000

Dizzying!

Comment on Playing words by Fern poetry | Seeds Aside

Fern poetry | Seeds Aside — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:45:17 +0000

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Comment on Not possible by Fig & Quince

Fig & Quince — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 02:48:06 +0000

confusing in a very amusing way

Comment on It’s friday, free picks: by azita

azita — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:13:41 +0000

There is such a thing as a peacock spider? Who knew? That is unbelievable. The video was seriously one of the coolest things I’ve seen. I will have to share this with my bug-crazy nephew. He will flip!! Thank you for sharing!!

Comment on Plant species of the week: Salvinia auriculata by It’s friday, free picks: | Seeds Aside

It’s friday, free picks: | Seeds Aside — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:26:36 +0000

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Comment on Plant species of the week: Chamerion (Epilobium) angustifolium by areallysmallfarm

areallysmallfarm — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:11:39 +0000

I don’t remember if the pollen is in tetrads or not. Will need to look that up and in a few months put some of the pollen under the microscope to see for myself.

I think there is a different leaf venation pattern in Chamerion angustifolium, too, but without a specimen at hand I can’t say for sure.

Comment on Plant species of the week: Chamerion (Epilobium) angustifolium by seedsaside

seedsaside — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:54:12 +0000

Yep, that was definitely something weird, given the phenotypic departure, especially in the absence of some other uniting feature. Sometimes there's a defining apomorphy in a Genus and you'd go with grouping otherwise quite different species. I wonder about pollen dispersal in Chamerion angustifolium, because if I remember well all species in Epilobium disperse pollen as tetrads.

Comment on Plant species of the week: Chamerion (Epilobium) angustifolium by areallysmallfarm

areallysmallfarm — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:50:48 +0000

I often wondered why fireweed was included with Epilobium after seeing the other Epilobium species like E. strictum, E. leptophyllum, and E. coloratum. The whorled leaves of E. angustifolium and flowers without a floral tube (the other species have one) seemed like differences enough to place it next to rather than within Epilobium or at least in a subgenus.

Would it be more accurate to say of Chamerion’s stigma that it is exserted rather than distorted as it protrudes about 1/4 more the length of the anthers?

Another question: is Chamerion a monotypic genus?

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