Are there any good textbooks or large informational books that include lots of pictures, graphics or diagrams that cover botany or ecology. specifically looking for more recent books as they tend to include more images and are more up to date.

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When talking about Arabidopsis thaliana in papers, some people will use just Arabidopsis (italicized) to save space.

I'm noticing that some italicize Arabidopsis as is convention for referring to genera, but others just use Arabidopsis (not italicized).

If they are treating Arabidopsis as a comon name, I would have expected it to be in lower case.

What's going on here?

Photo from yesterday

2nd photo from yesterday

Photo from today

2nd photo from today

I experienced some strange vine behavior, and wanted some help identifying the reason for this plant behavior. To explain, I was praying before a statue of the Virgin Mary that is behind the church I attend. As you can see in the photos, behind the statue are vines supported by a wooden structure. While I prayed, one of the vines moved, the vine in question being situated behind and to my left of the statue. It moved forward and around the statue, till it came to rest upon the statue in the manner shown by the first two photos. This vine movement, from being hanging behind and to the left of the statue to around and resting at the front of the statue, happened in a matter of moments. I took some photos and then continued to pray. The vine stayed like that till a gust of wind blew it out of that position and to the side of the statue; it was there that it was resting till I left.

When I returned to the statue the next day, the vine was no longer in the same position. It was once more to the left and behind the statue. I once more began to pray before the statue, and after praying for a while a similar vine movement occurred, as it moved forward, wrapping around the front of the statue. Like the first time, this movement took place over a short period of time, though I'd estimate it took a little longer this time, maybe around half a minute. I finished praying and left the statue, with the vine still in place when I left it.

A few things to note; both yesterday and today was windy, but the wind was not blowing in such a way to have caused this movement at either time. Both times that I prayed, I was in front of the statue roughly half an hour to an hour, though as stated before, the vine's movement took place under less than a minute both times (the first time I'd estimate roughly 15 seconds, the second time half a minute). Unfortunately I do not know what kind of vine species this is; I could, hypothetically, ask the groundskeeper of the church if he knows, if that would be necessary. I use the term 'movement' to describe what the vine did because I am not certain whether or not it was growth specifically that caused the plant to move the way it did.

While I am religious and spiritual, I post on this subreddit because I believe in ruling out natural causes and reasons for strange phenomena before jumping to any kind of alternative explanation. If anyone could provide me a biological explanation for why the vine would have moved in the manner that it did, I would greatly appreciate it, as googling for explanations has been unfruitful. I plan to return to this statue more in the coming days; if a similar experience takes place I shall try to record it.

I just noticed these bumps today. Is this specific to this type of succulent? A quick google search showed me an Echeveria raindrops photo but it doesn’t quite look the same. I’d appreciate if anyone can explain what’s going on here. Thanks!

I work at a retail nursery with a large houseplant greenhouse. It seems that we have had an exponential increase in spider mite observations reported and that traditional methods aren’t working to control them. Are there any new / novel approaches you all are aware of? We are willing to experiment. We guess that the increasing of popularity of spider mite friendly plants like Alocasia (which we are stocking in far larger quantity and variety from multiple vendors) is contributing, but we would very much like to find a way to solve for the issue rather than ditch entire families of fast selling plants. Any advice would be greatly appreciated- happy to provide more details on what we are currently doing!

Hello all! My parents live in Colorado and have some weird crystals growing on grass and im wondering if anyone knows what this could be? Thanks in advance!

I have been doing some reviews on okra and found a paper saying it is a shrub and another one saying it is an herb. Can anyone help me identify it? Sorry if this is not the right sub to ask this kind of questions.

I’m asking this here because I see it most commonly in plants, but sometimes I see something labeled as “spec.” With the location and I was wondering why that was? Example here

Hello, I'm looking for Botany textbooks that meet the following criteria:

1. Cover a wide range of topics within Botany (especially Systematics)
2. Easily available online (for free)
3. Published in 2019 or later

Thank you!

I'm leaning towards yes but I don't want to get my hopes up; what's your opinions?

Also I hope this isn't against the rules, I don't need any help with care, just asking your opinion about it's possible variegation

What other cool things can I tell 5th grade students about this cool carnivorous plant and it's fungal host? We were surrounded by various pines and incense cedar. We encountered it on a hike in the Tahoe National Forest California, USA. I will take another group later this week on the same trail.

Hello Everyone, I am a student with the subject of botany from India.

I had to collect wild flowers for my project for Herbarium but I'm not sure what wild flowers are, when I googled it showed roses, Hibiscus and Sunflower but I'm still not sure what flowers I have to collect. Some of my friends collected tiny flowers so please help 🙏

Hello everyone,

I am growing plants with artificial lights. The plants normally grow outside but by growing them inside I increased the speed of growth. For example, number of leaves is much higher. However, the leaves have very red-purple veins. This normally does not occur on the field. I read these a anthocyans. What is the origin or cause? To me it seems the plants are very healthy. I would suggest the plants have a surplus of assimilates.. ?