Blog

Landscape design is not scientific, but aesthetic.

The capital “X” is used within a scientific name to designate a plant is a hybrid of some kind.

To make your own key, it is best to first create a data matrix.

The three recognizable parts one sees when cutting through a bell pepper are:

Mulberries and raspberries look very much alike, but one comes from many flowers, the other from a single flower.

Zea (corn), Oryza (rice), and Triticum (wheat) all belong to which family:

A leaf with a small point formed by the continuation of a leaf’s midrib is called:

Rhizomes and stolons are not completely different from one another, because in various plants their features can overlap.  The features generally associated with a stolon, though, are its growth underground, use as a perennating structure, and serving as the main plant body.

The part of Vanilla orchid that is the part used for its delicious flavor is:

Choose the pair of terms that corresponds, respectively, to epigynous and hypogynous