epub |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Vincent Carruthers

Dimensions For small mammals, dimensions given are the body length from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail, plus the length of the tail. For large ...

epub |eng | 2005-03-13 | Author:Ronald L. Jones

CORYDALIS VENT. CORYDALIS. 1. Petals pinkish or purplish with yellow tips ___________________________________________ C. sempervirens. 1. Petals all yellow _________________________________________________________ C. flavula. C. flavula (Raf.) DC. Pale c. April–May. Mesic woodlands. ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Young

There is a physical basis for the saying in that the oak, large in the landscape, has a low electrical resistance. Hence the blasted oak, stark in silhouette and with ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Stefano Mancuso & Alessandra Viola [Mancuso, Stefano]

Figure 4-1. The structure of the stomata (top). By means of these small openings on their surfaces, the leaves take in the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis and give ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Stephen Buchmann [Buchmann, Stephen]

Flowers to Avoid: Don’t Eat These! We can’t talk about eating flowers fresh out of your garden without mentioning some important caveats, the do’s and don’ts of eating the daisies. ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-16 | Author:Hope Miller [Miller, Hope]

2. Cook mushrooms in butter over medium-high heat until they are well done and most of the liquid has been absorbed. 3. In a large bowl, combine spinach, mushrooms, artichoke ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Jared Farmer

TO SMUDGE OR NOT TO SMUDGE Frost was the dirty little secret of Southland citriculture. No self-respecting booster of the region would outright admit to freezing weather. Every realtor and ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-18 | Author:Douglas Deur

Monkeyflower sports two bright yellow lobes above and three below, all arranged symmetrically around a deep and hairy tube. mountain ash Sorbus scopulina (western mountain ash, rowan) Sorbus sitchensis (Sitka ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael Proctor [Michael Proctor, Peter Yeo and Andrew Lack]

Other wind-pollinated herbs The flowers of grasses and sedges are so specialised for wind pollination that they bear little resemblance to insect-pollinated flowers. Among the remaining wind-pollinated herbs, an entomophilous ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Nyerges, Christopher

Sometimes called husk tomato; one species (cultivated) is the popular tomatillo. The ripe fruits were eaten by the native peoples living in the desert near the Colorado River. The fruits ...

epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Thor Hanson [Hanson, Thor]

FIGURE 9.2.Chili pepper (Capsicum sp.). The thousands of varieties of domestic chili peppers descend from four species native to South America. In the wild, their pungency repels seed-killing fungi as ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:James McWilliams

CHAPTER 6 “Pecans for the World” THE PECAN GOES INDUSTRIAL, 1920–1945 If scientific agriculture came of age in the late 1800s, modern agribusiness arose in full force after World War ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Langdon Cook

CHAPTER 8 The Discreet Charm of the Golden Chanterelle IF THE HEDGEHOG IS THE UNDERDOG of wild mushrooms, the matsutake an exotic foreigner, and the king bolete royalty, the chanterelle ...

epub |eng | 2001-06-12 | Author:Michael Pollan [Pollan, Michael]

• • • As you can probably guess, I’ve told my marijuana-growing story more than a few times, after dinner with friends, say, and I can usually count on a ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Jane Goodall

And Now “Superweeds” Monsanto has also created GE crops (soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, and sugar beet) that are tolerant of its own brand of herbicide, Roundup, now the most widely ...