April 3rd, UW Green House, Seattle

April 3rd, UW Green House, Seattle
Time: 1:30
Weather: Controlled
Experienced the treasure that is the UW green house. Miracle berries are small red berries that cause your taste buds to only register sweet. After consumption of this berry lemons became very enjoyable. Saw ghost chili, has pointed leaves, shriveled red and green fruit, plant contains a chemical similar to dopamine that stimulates trig emend glad similar to touching a hot stove, tip of chili is not hot, prevents fungal growth. The Mons taro plant grows towards the dark rather than to light so that it can find trees, after which it then grows to light having attached its self to a host, this plant grows holes in its leaves which has the effect of discouraging butterflies from eating it. Dischidia is a vine that makes its leaves hallow to attract ants to live within it, the ants in return provide nutrients for the plant as well as protection. Welwitschia is a desert plant that can live to 2,000 years old, was believed that it would not like excessive water but by providing it with extra water the green house was able to rapidly increase growth rate, this indicates that it lives in the desert not due to an aversion to water, but rather because it gets pushed out of other environments. The peperomia has green bean shaped pods which let in light so it can do photo synthesis internally while minimizing water loss. Along with learning about all these individual plants we also learned that bogs are acidic and contain few nutrients, for this reason plants in bogs tend to be more carnivorous, such as the venous fly trap.

Publicado el junio 5, 2012 03:24 TARDE por austinuw