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When Tobacco Mosaic Virus infects a tobacco plant, the virus enters mechanically (For example through a ruptured plant cell wall) and replicates. After its multiplication, it enters the neighboring cells through plasmodesmata. For its smooth entry, Tobacco Mosaic Virus produces a 30,000 dalton prote |
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Cody Lundin, the survival master known as "Abodude" has created his own self sufficient home in Arizona.
Cody is known for his aboriginal lifestyle that includes walking without shoes for the past 20 years,creating fire with a hand drill (which is quite a bit more difficult than a bow-d |
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There are many plants that we've grown accustomed to pulling out of our gardens because they are too strong and take out too many nutrients. Many of these plants are actually edible and highly nutritious. You probably have many of these growing in your yard.
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Some plants needs an extra support to grow tall. Peas and Beans are an example of these kind of plants. Trellis structures can be as simple as a wooden stakes or as intricate as interwoven lattice. Plants are trained on a trellis to conserve space, increase light penetration into the plant, display |
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Powdery mildew is a fungal disease that affects a wide range of plants. Powdery mildew diseases are caused by many different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales. It is one of the easier diseases to spot, as its symptoms are quite distinctive. Infected plants display white powder-like spots on |
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Hydrangea macrophylla Plant infected with Cercospora Leaf Spot.
Cercospora Leaf Spot is a common disease in landscaping planting of Hydrangea. It is usually seen in low-maintenance landscaping.
It will unlikely kill the plant but will show many spots and leafs will shed prematu |
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Alternaria solani is a fungal pathogen, producing a disease in tomato and potato plants called early blight.
It produces small, darkened lesions on the plants, that spread into growing black spots of dead tissue, often killing most of the plant in the long run. Seeds infected with the diseas |
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Red and White Tree Lichen Spots |
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If your putting new grass sods yourself you might want to plan ahead and consider following some steps:
1. Kill all existing lawn/weed using Roundup to neutralize the soil
2. Use yard roller to smooth-out the soil
3. Use rotor tiller and till the ground
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Maybe Plum leaf blister (Polystigma rubrum) - Red leaf spots |
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Plant Description:
• The Orchid is bilaterally symmetric (zygomorphic).
• Many resupinate.
• One petal (labellum) is always highly modified.
• Stamens and carpels are fused.
• Seeds are extremely small.
• Like most monocots, orchids have big grass-like lea |
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Fireblight is a destructive, highly infectious and widespread disease caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora.The disease affects plants in the Rosaceae family: Malus (apple and crabapple), Cotoneaster (cotoneaster), Prunus (flowering almond, plum and cherry), Chaenomeles (flowering quince), Crata |
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Honey fungus or Armillaria is a genus of parasitic fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs. It includes about 10 species formerly lumped together as A. mellea.
Armillaria is long lived and form some of the largest living organisms in the world. The largest single organism (of the species A |
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The disease is caused by the fungus Exobasidium camelliae.
The severity of the disease varies according to the weather conditions when leaf expansion begins in the spring. Cool, moist weather favors disease development. Frequently overhead sprinkler irrigation provides the moisture necessary |
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Cedar Apple Rust - Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae |
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Strange, Tiny, Bowl-Like Fungus Pores.
Often found in sawdust, woodchips, manure, or well enriched soil. Cup is striated. They are saprophytes (decomposers of organic material).
The seeds are small capsules known as peridioles which contain the spores.
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Beans & legumes have nodules on their rootlets that will pump nitrogen from the environment into your soil -- making a more nitrogen-rich soil.
Would be great to plant these either near heavy nitrogen feeders like: tomatos, corn & cruciferous vegetables. Or to rotate your crops and pl |
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Unknown Fungus, Unknown Plant |
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Coneflowers may get Pseudomanas or Xanthomonas leaf spot. Powdery mildew will also occur under the right weather conditions. Botrytis may also occur. May get brown dead areas as well as distorted leaves. These plants now get aster yellows.
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Video of a little jumping spider doing what he does best, jumping. |
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Video: Making Bent Wood Trellis
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Whenever I'm designing elements for my garden, I always keep in mind, that the more natural they are the better they seem to fit in and that's exactly what I did when I created this rustic trellis. But others have taken thi |
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Reproduction in snails is quite different than in mammals.
The land snail is a hermaphrodite, it has both reproductive organs. It can't create babies by itself however, it needs a partner.
The snails 'hook up' on the right sides of their heads, this can last for up to 12 hours. Both |
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Video of Morning Glory Flowers opening up. |
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These creatures looked like grasshoppers or cicadas. If you know what they are leave a message below.
Here are some other Brazilian Insects and Spiders:
[[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Creature.php?pid=167[[]]
[[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Creature.php?pid=169[[]]
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Plant disease of warm humid areas, caused by a fungus (usually Colletotrichum or Gloeosporium). It infects various plants, from trees to grasses. Symptoms include sunken spots of various colours in leaves, stems, fruits, or flowers, often leading to wilting and dying of tissues. Dogwood anthracnose, |
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Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly Amanita, is a poisonous and psychoactive basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Native throughout the temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere, Amanita muscaria has been unintentionally introduced to many count |
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As I learn about Beekeeping, I'll post it here.
Link to a page on harvesting honey:
[[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Blog.php?pid=67[[]] |
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Learn from Green Deane about Amaranth, a long-cultivated but also wild food, vegetable and grain.
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Vegetable Amaranth 1-2 feet high
Grain Amaranth - much taller
Leaves dark on top, silvery on bottom. Leaves alternate up the stem. Cou |
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The members of Triatominae , a subfamily of Reduviidae, are also known as conenose bugs, kissing bugs, assassin bugs or triatomines. Most of the 130 or more species of this subfamily are haematophagous, i.e. feed on vertebrate blood; a very few species feed on other invertebrates. They are mainly fo |
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The disease will cause pale green, pink white or brown fleshy galls, which are caused by the fungus Exobasidium vaccinii.
Exobasidium vaccinii also infects species of Vaccinium including cranberries where it produces bright red, swollen spots on the leaves and fruits. Infected stems become |
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Snails are mature when a lip forms at the opening of their shell. Before they mature, their shells are more easily broken, making them undesirable. For H. aspersa, commercial weight is 8 grams or larger.
The nutrient composition of raw snails (per 100 grams of edible portion), according to i |
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Males almost never bite humans.
Males that escape being consumed by the females can go on to fertilize other females. It is a widely held misconception that females eat males after every mating.
The markings of Black Widows change constantly and dramatically before they develop into |
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Corn smut is a disease of maize caused by the pathogenic plant fungus Ustilago maydis.
In Mexico corn smut is called huitlacoche, sometimes spelled cuitlacoche), a Nahuatl word reportedly meaning raven's excrement. It is considered a delicacy, even being preserved and sold for a highe |
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A atemoia é uma fruta híbrida que é obtida através do cruzamento da cherimoia (Annona cherimola, Mill) com a fruta-pinha (Annona squamosa, L.), pertencentes à família das anonáceas (a mesma da graviola).
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2 different types of mushrooms cluster together on a tree trunk:
Dark yellow mushroom with dark red edges around it + False Turkey Tail |
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Helix aspersa, the common western garden snail, is a close relative of the commercial French food snail, Helix pomatia.
The practice of rearing snails for food is known as heliciculture.
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To Eat the Garden Snail:
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Large, white, round, styrofoam like mushroom. When the mushroom begins to crack is when it is edible. Texture when fried is like a marshmallow. |
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Perennial Climbing Vines
Balloon Vine (Cardiospermum halicacabum) - Also called love-in-a-puff; full sun; average garden soil; up to 10 feet; tendrils; tiny white flowers followed by balloon-like seedpods; seeds have a white, heart-shaped mark; three-part leaves (Perennial)
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Video of a venus fly trap sprouting out of the ground, and forming it's teeth. |
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Dogwood anthracnose is caused by the fungus Discula.
Brown, elliptical cankers may form at the base of dead branches. Drought, winter injury, and environmental stress predispose dogwood to anthracnose. Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) is resistant to this disease.
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It is a lot easier than you think to prepare a ground for planting seeds and seedlings.
You will want to consider the quality of the soil before you begin a plot of land to prepare for seeds & seedlings.
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Orange Chicken of the Woods Mushroom with white pigments
Laetiporus is a genus of edible mushrooms found throughout much of the world. Some species are commonly known as sulphur shelf, chicken of the woods, the chicken mushroom, or the chicken fungus because many think they taste like chicke |
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Ganoderma applanatum
AKA:Artist's Bracket, Artist's Conk, or Flacher Lackporling; syn. Boletus applanatus, Fomes applanatus, Fomes vegetus, Ganoderme aplani, Ganoderma lipsiense, Polyporus applanatus, and Polyporus vegetus
Bracket fungus with a worldwide distribution.
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It's HUGE! Any clue what this is? |
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My fiance and I "discovered" this mushroom in the Enchantment Lakes area of Leavenworth, Washington. This particular mushroom was not part of a cluster, but there were a few small clusters a few feet away. We loved the colors !!! |
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Looks like Sand lily, Star lily, Mountain lily (Leucocrinum montanum), but those have no green stripes on the leaves.
Also Known As: Sleepydick, Star-of-Bethlehem, Grass Lily, Nap-at-Noon, Eleven-o'clock Lady, Summer Snowflake, Starflower, and the Pyrenees Star of Bethlehem.
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The Goathead is an Flowering Annual.
Many pinnately compound leaflets per leaf.
Small yellow flowers with five petals.
The seeds are very trecherous, and cause the barefoot gardener a great deal of agony. The shoed gardener can't escape the tribulation either, |
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Rhizoctonia solani (teleomorph: Thanatephorus cucumeris) is a plant pathogenic fungus with a wide host range and worldwide distribution. It is one cause of the condition known as damping off, which is a cause of death of seedlings in agriculture. It is also responsible for wire stem, a disease |
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Garden Time - Don't Kill your Weeds, Eat Them
Why apply chemicals to remove your weeds, when you can harvest them to eat! We wander through a backyard to assemble a salad with a plant expert
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Mycena cyanorrhiza stains blue and contains the hallucinogen psilocybin
Mycena pura contains hallucinogen muscarine.
Thirty-three known species are bioluminescent, called foxfire. |
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Bee Keepers harvesting honey, two of them get stung and one of them drops a honey frame on his toe. Each frame can weigh 15 pounds. About 200 pounds were harvested.
The honeycomb frames are replaced with "Feeder" frames, which provide a solution of sugar and minerals.
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Datura plant is also known as "Datura Stramonium" which is its scientific name. The other names are Jimson weed, Stinkweed, Mad Apple, Apple Thorn, Stramonium and Dhatura Tatula. The parts, which are used, are the seeds, leaves and flowers. It is mainly found in the foothills of Himalayan |
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Radiation frost (also called hoar frost or hoarfrost) refers to the white ice crystals, loosely deposited on the ground or exposed objects, that form on cold clear nights when heat losses into the open skies cause objects to become colder than the surrounding air. A related effect is flood frost whi |
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beans,cucumbers,squash and to such flowers as lilac,zinnia,rose and phlox.
patches of white which encompass the entire surface of leaves,shoots,flowers and fruit. |
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Cedar-apple rust and quince rust affect two groups of vastly utilized landscape plants. The cedar-apple rust fungus overwinters in galls that may grow to several inches in diameter on eastern red cedar and several other junipers. In the spring, brightly-colored, gelatinous horns emerge from the gall |
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A Variety of White Fungi all over a tree trunk. |
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The disease is caused by the fungus Sclerotinia homoeocarpa. Susceptible turfgrass include: all species of warm- and cool-season turfgrass. Tall fescues, Bentgrass, Zoysiagrass and Bermuda hybrids are particularly susceptible.
Dollar spot is favored by temperatures between 60F to 85F and con |
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For most people, the first symptom noticed in the spring (early summer) is the die-back of the new shoot growth (tip blight). The new growth changes from light yellow green to red brown to ash gray as it dies from this fungal disease. Phomopsis juniperovora only kills the new growth - if more than j |
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Successful snail culture requires the correct equipment and supplies, including: snail pens or enclosures; devices for measuring humidity (hygrometer), temperature (thermometer), soil moisture, and light (in foot candles); a weigh |
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Video: Here's a video of the Mimosa Pudica - Sensitive Plant reacting to touch. |
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Height: Up to 4 ft.
Foliage: Alternate, simple, lanceolate, sessile, serrate
Flowers: Yellow ray and disk flowers in a terminal broadly pyramid-like panicle with conspicuous recurved branches
Bloom time: July to October
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My yellow straight neck squash plant has been healthy and producing. Today when I examined my garden this plant was wilted and curled with these huge ugly fungus growths all over the base of the plant. I do not know what this is or where it came from, I planted this garden 8 weeks ago and have had n |
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The best way that I've found to keep track of your seedlings and starts is to draw a planting diagram. This way even if some dog, cat, snot-nose or other large gardening pest knocks down your labels and signs, you will know which is which. It's good to take pictures of your seedlings when they first |
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In late spring, we plant the corn and beans and squash. They're not just plants- we call them the three sisters. We plant them together, three kinds of seeds in one hole. They want to be together with each other, just as we Indians want to be together with each other. So long as the three sisters ar |
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A terra estava úmida, devido a proximidade com a cachoeira. Os fungos cogumelos laranjas também estavam úmidos. São muito sensíveis ao toque humano. Essa espécie de fungos não costumam nascer somente em lugares úmidos. Esses, em especial, estav |
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This was a sizable mushroom, it was about the size of a kids football. Golden Mushroom |
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The Fly Agarics' are quite famous throughout history and are featured in many works of art and literary works. Most notably, the caterpillar that Alice talks to in "Through The Looking Glass" is seated on one. Noted by many for the toxic compounds which cause sweating, deep sleep, and diso |
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It is HUGE and frilly and like a Rose. It has no gills and no stem. |
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Awesome video of the Lady of the Night Flower or Cereus Flower blooming at night, and then un-blooming before sunrise. |
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These things just started growing and we have no idea what they are and the also smell terrible.
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its orange in color and is round in shape, came up after some heavy rains, rubbery to the touch and when the pod/fungus is popped it has thick orange liquid inside,. |
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This catepillar hangs from little silk lines. |
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Lea's mycena, is a North American species of saprobic fungi in the genus Mycena, family Tricholomataceae. Characterized by their bright orange caps and stalks and reddish-orange gill edges, they usually grow in dense clusters on deciduous logs. The pigment responsible for the orange color in this sp |
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Wikipedia
In botany, leaf shape is characterised with the following terms (botanical Latin terms in brackets):
* Acicular (acicularis): Slender and pointed, needle-like
* Acuminate (acuminata): Tapering to a long point
* Aristate (aristata): Ending in a stiff, |
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A Thrips is a very small bug that can just barely be seen by the naked eye. Some may have wings and some may not. Thrips reproduce rapidly. They thrive in small, tight places.
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Closely related to Hylocereus setaceus but otherwice quite isolated within Hylocereus. Is intermediate between Selenicereus and Hylocereus. Recent research suggest that this species originated as a hybrid between species of Hylocereus and Selenicereus (see references). The two species possibly invol |
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VIDEO: Here is an up-close video of little tiny aphids having their party all over my brussels sprouts. Notice how the leaf is turned outward? I flipped it inside-out. The aphids can make the leaves curl over them like blankets.
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In about 5 minutes we planted 4 bell pepper plants... It was my first time planting and I was amazed how easy it was...
Simply:
• Dig a small hole
• Grab the plant, still in its plastic tray and gently press the outside, so the plant comes out easily
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