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Thorny Cactus
Don't scorn those thorns! This stand of cacti might take some time to extricate oneself from if one were to stumble into it.
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Cacti Leaf
The back of this cactus leaf bears the impression of the leaves that were pressing into it as it developed creating a wiggely ziggity-zag pattern
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Cabbage
Mmm, cabbage! If you were a cute little bunny you would love this picture! You would blow it up giant-size and paste it onto your wall so you could pretend you were living inside a giant head of cabbage!
But...
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Strange Parasitic Plant
This is a strange parasitic plant. It has no chlorophyll and gets the energy it needs to survive from it's host plant. It lives on the roods of certain trees and what we see here is all of the brief stages...
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Dead Nettle
Lamium Purpureum - also known as Dead Nettle or Red Dead Nettle. It resembles the stinging nettle but does not sting, thus the "dead." A member of the mint family, it an abundant source of nectar and one...
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Flowering Grass
Go out amongst the weeds. Those unwanted plants that grow in vacant lots and along side the road. The most ordinary of them can transform into something exquisite. Here is one example. I don't have a guiide...
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Bloomin
This specie of grass is a regular pollen factory. Just looking at this picture makes me sneeze. Most of the blossoms of this grass are pretty ordinary but if you are willing to look at them carefully as...
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Pineapple blossom
I'm sure you are aware that if you cut the top off of a pineapple and put it in soil it will grow into a pineapple plant. Yes indeed they do. Pineapples are a variety of Bromeliad and bromeliads grow like...
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