Dear OGD's
I have just finished moving all 2000+ of my orchids into my house and
am prepared to meet Hurricane Dennis. In Georges I lost plants that I
put on the ground because of salt water flooding., hanging plants faired
well
We shuttered up my house, buisiness and my mother's house and are
I want to thank Icones for pointing out that albino means a loss of normal pigmentation and is not
restricted to anthocyanin production. The search I did to see how albino is being used in the
botanical literature was to go to "Google Scholar" (go to the Google home page, click on "more" in
the
Guido,
look there on page 383 and you will find "albus = white"
You must have an older addition or a different printing, as it is on page
366 in mine (Fourth Edition the latest) . It appears as a sub definition
under albens and the complete definition is "white, particularly a dull
rather
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You are very correct that even the most learned of botanist
In a message dated 7/8/05 6:03:26 AM, Guido writes:
I think that we should not compare plants with animals or humans, there are lots of basic differences and the physiology is by no means identical.
True, but melanin seems to occupy roughly the same position among animals that anthocyanin does in
[snip]
The second great invention is nitrile gloves, not so much protection from
poisons but protection from the ravages of the clay pots and wet hands for
hours at a time. They are much sturdier than the latex gloves commonly used
and provide just as good tactile handling properties. Around here
The problem, as Steve B.
well stated, has arisen from the misuse of the word "alba".
Even today, lots a people, especially commercial growers, use the term
for just about
everything under the sun, as they think they get more money for the
plant that way
(which is, from their point of view, leg
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