EDIT: I don’t think I phrased my original question properly.

I’m looking for suggestions on what to title the category, as in something like “native status” or “historical range” or something like that, with whether or not it’s native after it.

I am working on a regional field guide for the area I live in northern California. Because I want to include whether or not a plant is native to the area in the box at the top of each page with basic facts about the plant, I’m looking for a term to use for whether that plant is native or not. Here’s how the profile is going to be set up:

Binomial name: Common name(s): Conservation status: (endangered, etc) Native Status: (native, naturalized, invasive) Uses: (edible, medicinal, other, pollen source, etc)

Then farther down the page, below the box with the basic profile info, more details: Description: (a brief description of the plant and its uses, growing locations, etc) Notes and warnings: (other relevant notes, references to other pages, toxicity, etc)

i was watching a video where a plant was introduced to an area with only a few seeds, and i wondered if plants could experience effects of inbreeding like animals do. i know asexual reproduction and creating clone offspring is simpler for them, but can plant populations ever develop weaker genetics? follow up question- do planes even have genetic defects like animals?

Hi everyone!

I'm a biology student and I need to learn the scientific names of about 500 plants within a couple of months so that I can identify them from a picture alone. Does anyone have any tips and tricks on how you remember scientific names in the first place, let alone on a very large number of plants? I know everyone learns in different ways but someone might still have a better way than me to learn. Right now I'm looking at the pictures of the plants and their scientific names and writing short notes on the main characteristics next to their names but I feel it's not enough.

Thanks for any and all advice!

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EDIT: Wow, thank you all so much for all the advice and tips on different methods of learning the names! I did not expect to get this many replies and I've definitely gotten some great options to help me out, so many resources were unfamiliar to me so THANK YOU!! Learning the names doesn't feel as hopeless anymore :)

This is for an art piece, not substance use

Background: I'm an endocannabinoid researcher, looking for new ways to distill plant based concentrates; for my patients. In order to make my products, I go through a solvent distillation process using ethanol. Most endocannabinoid researchers will let there plant matter steep in the high-grade ethanol, then run the saturated solvent mixture through a double boiler, and finally run your final product through a vacuum chamber, to suck off any reaming impurities.

HOWEVER!

I don't have an industrial vacuum chamber.....

Though, when you distill liquor; you can do what's called a "Freeze-Distillation.".

Simply find the freezing point of water (32 F), then the freezing point of the alcohol (Negative 173 F), and put your home-brew in the fridge at 30 F. All the water will freeze, whilst the liquor will remain a liquid.

So if I wanted to, hypothetically; I could just take my final product, after it's done on the double boiler, put it in the freezer, instead of a vacuum chamber, and freeze off the remaining impurities, right?

Well in order to do so, I need to know the freezing points of tetrahydrocannabinol, as well as Cannabidiol. Yet I can't find ANYTHING on google, in regards to a definitive answer; to that question......

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Question: What are the freezing points of tetrahydrocannabinol, and Cannabidiol?

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I think this is the first time I am actually angry at something, firstly the document said they have only found 30 living specimens and put it on the IUCN red list......ITS NOT ON THERE, second they said that where they found the orchids, the government wanted to build a road there but if my English isn't failing me under the "Conservative status" in the phyto document it's insinuating that the road will be build and there is no clear answers to IF THE CONSTRUCTION PLANS WERE STOPPED AND THIRD , THEY HAVE no known plan to conserve and save this plant they only said that it's critically endangered BUT NOTHING more. Also the only "new information" that I have is a photo from the American orchid society 2021 September. They had almost seven years to do anything but nothing happened.

I'm trying to build a fairly realistic 3d model of an Oasis and I'm modeling it after Huacachina.

Besides Date Palms what other plant species are common? I can't seem to find any information about the area's ecology.

For example some of the plants found in this image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeyd12/28046808547

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(especially the trees)

I'm making a video game. It features a marshy forest/forested wetland type of environment.

I have lots of different tree models but they look jarring when put into an environment. I'm not exactly sure what it is but I've looked at some pictures and I'm mostly seeing the same tree type in every shot.

Is this it? Should I reduce tree variety? Maybe only have one type (different models) or maybe two, one that's near bodies of water and another more inland?

Does this make sense?

Larkspur can give you a rash if you touch it, but I'm wondering if it acts like poison ivy. If say, another person touches your Larkspur rash, will they get it too? Or only if they touch the actual source, the plant itself?

I would like to know how many years ago the gorse plant evolved

just a thought that occured to me. nature can do some crazy stuff, so i was wondering if there is any known species where the same individual plant can have different branches produce flowers that look different from each other either in color or shape

Thanks!!

Is it safe to spray plants with peroxide and lemon juice? Is it safe to spray plants with alcohol and lemon juice? Is it safe to spray plants with alcohol, peroxide, and lemon juice? *All diluted

So, I have many plants in my study room, from succulents, calatheas, ficuses and monsteras...

Now, I often times stay up late, studying (like now, for example, it's 3 in the morning where I live). I have the main light switched off, but have an LED reading lamp, a laptop and a large monitor. None of these are directed at any of my plants, so no direct exposure.

Will such disturbance harm the plants, or affect them in any other way? They are currently all healthy and thriving.

From cooking to medicine, my favorite type of plants fall into the rhizome category. How they form the network of roots always intrigued me, and the chemicals they contain are quite a bit more pungent effects, that are desirable. Studying terpenes has led me to the rhizomes.

What are some differences from traditional plants i should know about? I'm new to this study and would like alot of information. There actually isn't much related to the Galanga species. In fact, WebMD doesn't even consider alot of the ones I know of to exist. Any medicinal uses I should know about?

My fellow rhizome biologists, let's unite!

I was wondering whether thorns that release a toxin on a plant are poisonous or venomous. My instincts tell me poisonous, but I've also heard that: ''If you bite it and you die it's poison, but if it bites you and you die, that's venom."

Since it's not either, but kinda closer to biting you, since it's breaking the skin barrier and releasing whatever toxin and not going through the digestive tract, I was wondering about it's classification.

A Google search told me that such thorns are commonly called "poisonous thorns" but I was wondering if that's actually true, or a misnomer.

Thanks for any replies.

So i really like plants and i will go in biology in september in hope to study botany later. Anyway i thought it could be fun to learn a new plant everyday so if you have any good book recommendations to do it, tell me plz !

Btw I know French and English ( well Im still learning english but i can read in English easily )

Thank you (:

It seems like when someone has a plant with a virus, the general consensus is to toss it immediately because it will slowly die and infect all the other plants around the entire time it’s dying.

Speaking very generally, it feels like when people get viruses there’s most likely no cure, or if there are antivirals they’re very expensive like for Hep C; but it seems like we mostly just get sick for a bit and then recover. Can plants ever recover from getting a virus? Is there such a thing as a “plant flu”? If not, why not?

I think it might be infected