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I found this in my garden growing under a bush, what is it? Some kind of mushroom?

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  • Asked by Humpf
  • on 2010-06-13 15:23:09
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: plant, mushroom, weird, garden.

 

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Why do plants and animals in tropical countries tend to be more colourful than those in cooler places?
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Categories: Animals.

Tags: animals, plants, evolution.

 

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Why don't slugs and snails eat weeds in my garden?

As they eat every other plant in it.

Consequently why doesn't somebody make an eco friendly weed killer that you spray onto weeds that makes it attractive to slugs and snails. A slug n snail pheromone so to speak. That way we could get them to do something positive with their lives that would benefit us rather than having to kill them all the time.
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  • Asked by aturnb
  • on 2010-05-21 12:53:57
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Last edited on: 2010-05-21 20:31:51

Categories: Plants.

Tags: plant, Slugs, Weeds.

 

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If you mow long (6 in) Dandelions in your lawn the next generation (next day!) will have stems only 2 (+/-)in. long.

When I mow the Dandelions in my lawn they have stems about 6 inches long.  The flowers produced the next, and following days, are very short.  They appear to know the height of the mower and don't extend past that point.  This appears to be a type of learning in a plant since some of the future flowers surely are just a few cells at the time I mowed their parent's heads off (with considerable satisfaction, by the way).
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  • Asked by ghpots4$
  • on 2010-04-17 16:39:27
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: plants, learning.

 

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Why are many roots yellow? What advantage does that chemical provide?
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  • Asked by ghpots4$
  • on 2010-04-17 16:25:13
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: plants, selectiveadvantage, roots.

 

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If life at the bottom of the ocean exists in 100+ atmosphere pressure why doesn't it get crushed?
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  • Asked by agshort
  • on 2010-04-05 21:24:56
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Categories: Our universe.

Tags: plants, planetearth, ouruniverse.

 

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What makes daffodils best suited for early spring blooming?

Daffodils and crocuses are always the first flowers I see come spring in New England.  What about them makes them best suited for early spring blooming? Is it the bulb? Or the are the flowers better for colder temperatures?

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  • Asked by GeekChic
  • on 2010-03-24 19:16:54
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: plant, flowers, spring, crocus, blooming, daffodil.

 

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Plant-Eating Plant

I have heard of animal that eat plants, and I have heard of animals that eat animals, and I have heard of plants the eat animals, but are there any plants that eat other plants?

 

 

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15,  Daventry, UK
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: animals, plants, Life.

 

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could hallucinogenic plants have evolved to use hallucinogenic effects to their advantage?

 

eg possibly they would gain from the contents of vomit - spreading the spores. this would presumably apply only to the ones that look 'innocent' (& taste ok).

 

 
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  • Asked by neilbdm
  • on 2010-03-07 00:57:28
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Last edited on: 2010-03-20 13:55:00

Categories: Plants.

Tags: evolution, plant, mushroom, vomit, hallucinogenic.

 

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could poisonous plants - eg mushrooms - have evolved to kill?

possibly they would gain from the breakdown of the victim's body - minerals, etc. also maybe contents of vomit - spreading the spores. this would presumably apply only to the ones that look 'innocent' (& taste ok).
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  • Asked by neilbdm
  • on 2010-03-07 00:54:53
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Last edited on: 2010-03-20 14:03:25

Categories: Plants.

Tags: evolution, plant, poisonous, mushrooms, evolve.

 

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