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Plants are a major group of living things including familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, ferns and mosses. About 350,000 species of plants, defined as seed plants, bryophytes, ferns and fern allies, have been estimated to exist. As of 2004, some 287,655 species had been identified, of which 258,650 are flowering and 15,000 bryophytes.
Aristotle divided all living things between plants, which generally do not move, and animals. In Linnaeus' system, these became the Kingdoms Vegetabilia (later Plantae) and Animalia. Since then, it has become clear that the Plantae as originally defined included several unrelated groups, and the fungi and several groups of algae were removed to new kingdoms. However, these are still often considered plants in many contexts. Indeed, any attempt to match "plant" with a single taxon is doomed to fail, because plant is a vaguely defined concept unrelated to the presumed phylogenic concepts on which modern taxonomy is based.
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@GaiaBordicchia don't worry, we never manage to keep plants alive either xD So.. we buy a cactus haha!
parochena (Paulette Arochena) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:29:02 -0000
@GaiaBordicchia don't worry, we never manage to keep plants alive either xD So.. we buy a cactus haha!
Cops sell seized pot plants to the suspected grower. http://bit.ly/8PUmim That is just wrong! A criminal act by police is never justified.
CalFireNews (Cal Fire News ) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:27:34 -0000
Cops sell seized pot plants to the suspected grower. http://bit.ly/8PUmim That is just wrong! A criminal act by police is never justified.
New blog entry on 7% increase in mercury emitted into the air by coal-fired power plants in Illinois in 2008. http://tinyurl.com/yjcxuee
ILEnviroLawBlog (Dave Scriven-Young) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:27:08 -0000
New blog entry on 7% increase in mercury emitted into the air by coal-fired power plants in Illinois in 2008. http://tinyurl.com/yjcxuee
i wish i can have more boots and plants in my life right now
heuij (Heui Jin Jo) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:26:37 -0000
i wish i can have more boots and plants in my life right now
WaPost's Applebaum on TSA: grew from 13 employees in 2002 to 60,000 now. Agency once spent $350k on a gym, $500k on artwork and silk plants.
juliakmarsh (Julia Marsh) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:26:23 -0000
WaPost's Applebaum on TSA: grew from 13 employees in 2002 to 60,000 now. Agency once spent $350k on a gym, $500k on artwork and silk plants.
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Meta Description: [ Providing botanical, folk-lore and herbal information, plus organic herbs, and herbal products. ]
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Virtual Palm Encyclopedia - History, horticulture, pests and diseases, conservation, photographs, and references.
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