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Nepeta cataria is an herb better known to felines as this

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During the course of a summer one single fern may produce millions of these tiny reproductive bodies

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The tiny dustlike grains that carry the male genes in flowering plants are known as this

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The sphagnum type of this is often used to pack plants & keep them moist for shipping

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Parasitic fungi cause this disease of cereal grasses that forms black powdery masses

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Plants like rubber plants produce & store this fluid in laticifer cells

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Found in the cell walls of some plants this carbohydrate helps jelly jell

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It's an organic material such as peat spread around plants to suppress weeds

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This plant produces creamy white flowers that turn purple then drop off & leave the bolls

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Entomophily is pollination carried out by these creatures as an entomologist could tell you

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This milky liquid found in rubber trees is also found in dandelions & goldenrod

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Term for the offspring produced from 2 different plant species

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This scientific name for a type of tree means cone-bearer

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It's the tallest of all grasses; one type grows to 120 feet with a stem circumference of 3 feet

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Most of the latex from which this substance is produced comes from the species hevea brasiliensis

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It's the type of plant that comes in varieties that include fescue & bermuda

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Hybrid tea floribunda grandiflora climbing & rambling are classifications of these

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Members of this plant family include peas clover & lentils

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You can collect water from a plant's leaves because they lose water vapor through pores called these

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In the arctic some of these organisms consisting of alga & a fungus may be 4000 years old

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Complete flowers have both male stamens & these female appendages

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A member of the violet family its name is a corruption of the french word pensee meaning thought

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A gene bank stores rare plant material & sometimes this the microspores of seed plants

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Species of this plant are the most common cause of hay fever in the u.s.

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A large funnel-shaped flower native to argentina or porky pig's girlfriend

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It's the process by which a scion is put on a stock

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It's the term for the large divided leaves found on ferns & certain palms

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The offspring of 2 genetically different parents are called these like some popular roses

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Burpee doesn't sell you seeds to grow these vegetables it sends you eyes

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This disease in which fungus grows on the surface of a plant has powdery & downy types

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This pigment in carrots also turns birch tree leaves yellow in autumn

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The spines on a cactus are modified leaves; the thorns on a bush are modified ones of these

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This part of a plant's pistil has chemicals in it that will cause it to reject the wrong types of pollen

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The true species of this shrub is called sweet bay

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As a noun this word refers to a dried fruit; as a verb it means to cut back a tree's branches

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Algae & this other type of plants live together in the form of lichens

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Pollination by these is called ornithophily

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It's the term for a plant that normally lives for 2 years & then dies

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Tree ferns don't reproduce by flowers fruits or seeds but by this means

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This gas is produced by plants during photosynthesis

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It's the carbohydrate found in fruits used to jell various foods

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Also called ling this shrub was probably named after the moors it's found on

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The old man type of this succulent is thornless & is covered in a coat of white hair

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The beta variety of this hydrocarbon is the orange pigment in carrots

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Diatoms are single-cell varieties of these water plants

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Earth's first land vegetation may have been these minute green plants that grow on rocks & damp banks

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An epiphyte is a plant that doesn't have these in the soil; it's supported by another plant

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An epiphyte is a plant that doesn't have these in the soil; it's supported by another plant

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It's the type of plant that comes in varieties that include fescue & bermuda

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As a noun this word refers to a dried fruit; as a verb it means to cut back a tree's branches

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Algae & this other type of plants live together in the form of lichens

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The sphagnum type of this is often used to pack plants & keep them moist for shipping

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This milky liquid found in rubber trees is also found in dandelions & goldenrod

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All types of this grain belong to the botanic species zea mays

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A xerophyte is a plant adapted to living in places where this is in short supply

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Diatoms are single-cell varieties of these water plants

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Halophytes are plants adapted to live in soils containing high concentrations of this common compound

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Like the fields it's grown in the dried threshed grain of this plant is called paddy

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A member of the violet family its name is a corruption of the french word pensee meaning thought

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Plants like rubber plants produce & store this fluid in laticifer cells

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Earth's first land vegetation may have been these minute green plants that grow on rocks & damp banks

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Linseed oil is derived from this blue-flowered plant

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In 2011 botanists at the international botanical congress decided to no longer require new species to be described in this language

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Pollination by these is called ornithophily

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Type of plant the british call a creeper

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Boston staghorn & bracken are among the species of these spore-bearing plants

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It's the chemical constituent of genes in plants too

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