Botany Articles

• Botany
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  Global Warming
  Air Quality
  Geochemistry
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Photosynthesis

  Photosynthesis, generally, is the synthesis of sugar from light, carbon dioxide and water, with oxygen as a waste product. It is arguably the most important biochemical pathway known; nearly all life ... > more
• Ecology Research
  Nature
  Marine Biology
  Extinction
  Endangered Plants
  Food
   
  

  Trophic level

  In ecology, the trophic level is the position that an organism occupies in a food chain - what it eats, and what eats it. Wildlife biologists look at a natural "economy of energy" that ultimately ... > more
• Organic
  Soil Types
  Botany
  Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Plants
  Sustainability
   

  Organic lawn management

  Organic lawn management is the practice of establishing and caring for a garden lawn without the use of chemical inputs such as pesticides or artificial fertilisers. The garden lawn is a place where ... > more
• Trees
  Botany
  Forest
  Nature
  Exotic Species
  Invasive Species
   
  

  Tree

  A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. Though there is no set definition regarding minimum size, the term generally applies to plants at least 6 m (20 ft) high at maturity and, ... > more
• Invasive Species
  Botany
  Trees
  Endangered Plants
  New Species
  Nature
   
  

  Ivy

  Hedera (English ivy) is a genus of about ten species of climbing or ground-creeping evergreen woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to the Atlantic Islands, western, central and southern ... > more
• Trees
  Seeds
  Botany
  Endangered Plants
  Nature
  New Species
   
  

  Pinophyta

  The conifers, division Pinophyta, also known as division Coniferae, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. They are cone-bearing seed plants with vascular tissue; all ... > more
• Seeds
  Agriculture and Food
  Endangered Plants
  Food
  Botany
  Vegetarian
   
  

  Legume

  The term legume has two closely related meanings in botany, legume can refer to either the plant itself, or to the edible fruit (or useful part). Legumes are noteworthy for their ability to fix ... > more
• Invasive Species
  Drought
  Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Insects (including Butterflies)
  New Species
   
  

  Water hyacinth

  The seven species of water hyacinths comprise the genus Eichhornia of free-floating perennial aquatic plants native to tropical South America. One of the fastest growing plants known, water hyacinth ... > more
• Seeds
  Botany
  Nature
  Endangered Plants
  Ecology
  Agriculture and Food
   

  Seedbank

  Seedbanks store seeds as a source for planting in case seed reserves elsewhere should be destroyed. The seeds stored may be various in nature, such as those of food crops or those of rare species, to ... > more
• Trees
  Botany
  Seeds
  Fish
  Invasive Species
  Nature
   
  

  Coast Douglas-fir

  The Coast Douglas-fir is an evergreen conifer native to the coastal regions of western North America. Coast Douglas-fir is a very large tree, the second-tallest in the ... > more

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