dible Pod Radish makes an enlarged, succulent, crunchy pod, in the same fashion as green-beans and snap-peas. The tip of the pod tapers to a fine point, giving it a fanciful resemblance to a rat-tail … a name by which it was formerly found in seed-catalogs etc, but is now not often seen. Seed-pod vegetables …
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Genealogy & Pedigree for Plants curious relations of photosynthetic organisms
enealogy for Plants cannot readily be done with the same software that we use for human families (and which can be used for other animals, though perhaps with difficulties), for two reasons. One, many plants are self-fertile. There are flexible and variable versions of this, such as with apple trees which may require a pollinator-variety, …
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Swamp current aka, skunk current; a widespread wild current with landscape-values
wamp current is the prefered popular name on the Olympic Peninsula of maritime west-coast North America. More-widely, it is typically called skunk current. Ribes glandulosum. But it grows especially well on slurpy-wet ground; usually on slopes, and maybe not ‘in’ swampiness, but conspicuously on elevated stumps & hummocks, in swamp-habitat.