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eileen
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:38 pm   Post subject: Fun and interesting plant facts.


I thought you might all like to read these:

http://sophia.smith.edu/badseeds/plantfacts.html

http://edservices.ccps.org/wbl/plants/strange.html


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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:03 am   Post subject:


Thanks Eileen. Some of those I knew but some were new to me. A Pineapple is a berry? I saw a news report a couple of years ago about the corpse flower and how the smell gave it that name.

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Thanks, Eileen; interesting stuff.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:45 pm   Post subject:


Good stuff!


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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:32 pm   Post subject:


Oooh, these are really fun!

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