Q-files - The Great Illustrated Encyclopedia Euphorbia platyclada: A living plant that looks dead I probably should have waited to post this until it was doing something more exciting than simply being alive in a pot, but the fact that it is alive at all is one reason why I find this euphorbia so thrilling in the first place. Euphorbia platyclada is a living succulent plant that looks dead, or at the very least like a zombified plant taking imperceptible micro-steps forward with its leafless arms* splayed out and fingers dangling like dead weights. It is yet another oddity in my growing collection of alien euphorbias from outer space, and was also a gift from my friend and fellow Euphorbia enthusiast Uli. [Aside: Davin says that this description and post title is the product of having played too much Plants Versus Zombies. For those who aren't familiar with the game, each round begins with a scary voice that says, "Zombies are coming." I love the look of this plant on its own in a pot as a specimen. *What appear to be leafless arms or stems are in fact, modified leaves. Related
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Introduction to Aeoniums (Editor's Note: This article was originally published on May 12, 2008. Your comments are welcome, but pleasebe aware that authorsof previously published articles may not be able to respond to your questions.) Most Aeoniums come originally from the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain in the Atlantic Ocean, with a few oddball species from several isolated parts of central Africa. Aeoniums are members of the Crassulaceae, a huge family of succulents that include many other popular and commonly grown succulents, including some that look a lot like Aeoniums. Echeverias and Aeoniums can sometimes be confused... these are Echeverias and Echeveria hybrids: sedundiflora, nuda-ciliata and set-oliver Graptopetalums, Graptoverias and Pachyverias also somewhat resemble Aeoniums Aeoniums were even once included in the genus Sansevieria (examples shown here) The roots of Aeoniums are pretty wimpy and hair-like with all the water-storing parts of the plants being in the stem and leaves.
Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World IN THE SUMMER of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machiguenga, an indigenous people who live north of Machu Picchu in the Amazon basin. The Machiguenga had traditionally been horticulturalists who lived in single-family, thatch-roofed houses in small hamlets composed of clusters of extended families. For sustenance, they relied on local game and produce from small-scale farming. They shared with their kin but rarely traded with outside groups. While the setting was fairly typical for an anthropologist, Henrich’s research was not. Rather than practice traditional ethnography, he decided to run a behavioral experiment that had been developed by economists. The test that Henrich introduced to the Machiguenga was called the ultimatum game. Among the Machiguenga, word quickly spread of the young, square-jawed visitor from America giving away money. So instead of toeing the line, he switched teams.
Euphorbia milii Description[edit] Stamens and carpels It is a succulent climbing shrub growing to 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, with densely spiny stems. The straight, slender spines, up to 3 cm long, help it scramble over other plants. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[4] Varieties[edit] Euphorbia milii var. bevilaniensis (Croizat) Ursch & Leandri 1955Euphorbia milii var. hislopii (N.E.Br.) Gallery[edit] Euphorbia milii var splendensEuphorbia milii var. splendensEuphorbia milii var. vulcaniiEuphorbia milii var.miliiClose-up view of Euphorbia milii References[edit]
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How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again It’s interesting to think about how we make people who used to be everything into nothing again. How we learn to forget. How we force forgetting. When our lives revolve around someone, they don’t just stop revolving around them even if all that’s left is the grief and pain that comes with their memory. Do you ever really forget your lovers’ birthdays, or all your first times, intimate and not? I want to believe that you either love someone, in some way, forever, or you never really loved them at all. Maybe it’s just that we’re all at the centers of our own little universes, and sometimes they overlap with other people’s, and that small bit of intersection leaves some part of it changed; that’s where we grow together. We all start as strangers.
Castor oil plant Its seed is the castor bean, which, despite its name, is not a true bean. Castor is indigenous to the southeastern Mediterranean Basin, Eastern Africa, and India, but is widespread throughout tropical regions (and widely grown elsewhere as an ornamental plant).[4] Castor seed is the source of castor oil, which has a wide variety of uses. An unrelated plant species, Fatsia japonica, is similar in appearance and known as the false castor oil plant. Description[edit] Female (top) and male flowers The glossy leaves are 15–45 centimetres (5.9–17.7 in) long, long-stalked, alternate and palmate with 5–12 deep lobes with coarsely toothed segments. The green capsule dries and splits into three sections, forcibly ejecting seeds Nomenclature[edit] The name Ricinus is a Latin word for tick; the seed is so named because it has markings and a bump at the end that resemble certain ticks. Medicinal uses[edit] Castor oil has many uses in medicine and other applications. Other uses[edit] Cultivars[edit]
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