Thanks Lee, I knew it was one of the Lemna species, Gary
On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Lee Frelich <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary: > > The Gleason and Cronquist manual of plants claims that Lemna minuta > has > smaller fronds than Lemna minor, but the drawing in the accompanying > Illustrated companion book shows Lemna minor being smaller. I was > always > told that Lemna minor and Lemna minuta had the smallest flowers of any > known plant, but have not seen any data. > > Lee > > Gary A Beluzo wrote: >> 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] -- 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]
