Look at this monster.

What damage does it actually inflict on the plant?

Flax is also grown as an ornamental plant in gardens.

Often, definitions derive from the appearance or behavior of the plant itself.

It s the plant from which you can create mescaline, one of the psychedelic drugs.

Many of the species are monocarpic, with the parent plant dying after one flower and seed production event.

Those aphids secrete some sticky, sugary liquid called honeydew, and this just globs the upper parts of the plant.

The pollen of Texas wild rice can only travel about 30 inches away from a parent plant.

When the plant is called hemp (Cannabis genus) the reason it is illegal in the United States has all to do with politics.

RNAi has been used to produce cotton stocks whose seeds contain reduced levels of delta cadinene synthase, a key enzyme in gossypol production, without affecting the enzyme's production in other parts of the plant, where gossypol is itself important in preventing damage from plant pests.

This is a plant here that insects in South Africa just love, and they've evolved with a long proboscis to get the nectar at the bottom.

The most successful examples of transplanting have been where a substantial amount of soil ( 1 cubic metre) has been taken with the plants.

The second plant is Mother in law's Tongue, which is again a very common plant, and we call it a bedroom plant, because it converts CO2 into oxygen at night.

Some strains of the plant can be used to produce marijuana, a mild but mostly illegal drug that most politicians are eager to distance themselves from.

Description It is able to tolerate soils with copper concentrations of up to 15,000 ppm, and soils with nickel concentrations of almost 5000 ppm.

When a plant cell is placed in a solution that is hypertonic relative to the cytoplasm, water moves out of the cell and the cell shrinks.

The Legion of Good Will has assumed serious social commitments since its honoured and greatly missed founder, Alziro Zarur (1914 1979), under divine inspiration, spread the roots of this Organization in Brazilian soil.

Now you can imagine that if nectar is such a valuable thing and expensive for the plant to produce and it attracts lots of pollinators, then, just as in human sex, people might start to deceive.

These are the anthers of a lily, cleverly done so that when the unsuspecting insect lands on it, the anther flips up and whops it on the back with a great load of pollen that it then goes to another plant with.

What looks like moss covering rocks is actually a shrub comprised of thousands of branches, each containing clusters of tiny green leaves at the end and so densely packed together that you could actually stand on top of it.

They lay their eggs in it, thinking it's a nice bit of carrion, and not realizing that there's no food for the eggs, that the eggs are going to die, but the plant, meanwhile, has benefited, because the bristles release and the flies disappear to pollinate the next flower fantastic.

So not only has the fly not got the nectar from the mimic plant, it's also if you look very closely just at the head end, you can see that it's got a bit of pollen that it would be transmitting to another plant, if only some botanist hadn't come along and stuck it to a blue piece of card.