Zotz and colleagues ask for a re-evaluation of the occurrence, evolution, and function of the velamen radicum in both terrestrial and epiphytic angiosperms
Tag - epiphytes
botanyone
Plants enjoying the high life
Plants on Plants – The Biology of Vascular Epiphytes by Gerhard Zotz. Springer 2016. Gerhard Zotz’s The biology of vascular epiphytes [hereafter referred to as Epiphytes!] is part of Springer’s Fascinating Life Sciences...
Nigel Chaffey
Every dog has its day
One of the great hopes of the 1980s (and as far back as the 1940s) was that one plant species would be typical of all plants and could be used as a model for the entirety of plant biology. The plant chosen for that...
Botany, a load of rubbish?
Caught your attention? No, I’m not about to rubbish Botany, but this item does focus on a particular type of biological ‘rubbish’, leaf-litter.
Plant parts doing unexpected things: Part 2 (or, Root research all up in the air)
The aerial roots of epiphytic plants perched high above the ground on trees photosynthesise, as well as absorbing water from their surroundings.
“It’s an ill wind…
… that blows nobody any good” is an old English idiom that suggests that most bad things that happen have a good result for someone, somewhere. And Markus Hauck and colleagues in Göttingen, Germany, have illustrated...
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Increased pH and dieback of lichen
Increased pH and dieback of lichen Lecanora conizaeoides is an epiphytic lichen adapted to very acidic conditions, and a reduction in atmospheric SO2 in western and central Europe has coincided with a dramatic decline...
