Lee/Paul, Is the smallest angiosperm still Lemna minor (duckweed)?
Gary On Nov 30, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Lee Frelich <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul: > > Wow, thats small, 2 mm across the whole flower. Its even smaller than > the early summer coral root, which has flowers about 4-5 mm across, at > least its that small on poor soils in the northwoods. > > Lee > > Paul Jost wrote: >> For those interested in orchids, my brother just discovered the >> smallest orchid in the world and it's getting picked up by online >> news >> services: >> http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/11/new_species_of_orchid_is_world.php >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6684293/Smallest-species-of-orchid-discovered-hidden-in-larger-plant.html >> >> In the reference section of the first article, they provide a link to >> text from an article on him that appeared in the 1990 Earth Day >> edition of Sports Illustrated when he was climbing trees in Costa >> Rica's rain forests. To see the pictures, too, go to the following >> link, click on view thumbnails, and scroll to page 94 with the full >> page photo of a monkey on an all green background: >> http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19900409&mode=reader_vault >> <http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19900409&mode=reader_vault >> >> > >> >> Paul J >> -- >> Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org >> Send email to [email protected] >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en >> To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] > > -- > Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org > Send email to [email protected] > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
