Showing posts with label Plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plants. Show all posts

New Mushroom

Posted by BlackJack On Monday, October 5, 2009 0 comments


Glow in the Dark Mushrooms

As if teeny nighttime lights were flaccid from ranking trunks and branches, smolder in the shady mushrooms elucidate the forests crossways the globe. Now, have discovered several species of like radiant’shrooms, the number of aglow mushroom species from 64 to 71, sheeding light on the evolution of luminescence in nature.



A newly identified luminescent fungus called Mycena luxaeterna was discovered in a forest in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The mushroom caps are tiny, under a half inch (8 mm) in diameter and the stems have a jelly-like structure.


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Tomatoes

Posted by BlackJack On Saturday, September 5, 2009 0 comments


Better Tomatoes Via a Fertilizer of Human Urine

Human urine works amazingly well as a fertilizer for tomatoes. Plants fertilized with a combination of store human being urine and wood ash created 4.2 times added fruit than plants not including the pee, the revision establish. The urine fertilized tomatoes have supplementary beta-carotene than unfertilized ones, and a lot more of protein than habitually fertilized foliage.


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Rat-eating Plant

Posted by BlackJack On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 0 comments



'Spectacular'

A rare, meat-eating, giant pitcher plant has been discovered by botanists in a remote mountaintop region of the Philippines. The enormous plant is supposed to eat rodents as on form as insects. Named Nepenthes attenboroughii, after eminent UK historian David Attenborough, the gargantuan decanter plants have direct resembling formations that trap animals once they drop keen on the plant.

The plant was initially discovered by Christian missionaries in 2000, other than be officially recognized when innate the past voyager Stewart McPherson, sovereign botanist Alastair Robinson, and Andreas Fleischmann of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany set off to find the plant.


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Lotus Leaf

Posted by BlackJack On Saturday, August 8, 2009 0 comments


The Lotus leaf’s surface texture by dissolving a cheap, common-plastic called isotactic polypropylene or iPP, dropping the way out onto glass, and at that time evaporating the solvents. This produced a plastic film that “resembles at the bird’s nest made of branched and intermingled sticks and bumps” And just like a lotus leaf, the plastic covering repel water by forcing it to form beads that easily roll off.


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They Hate Water

Posted by BlackJack On Tuesday, August 4, 2009 0 comments


We all know that certain plants and animals are naturally water repellent. If you spatter a drop of water on the leaf of a gabi plant (taro), you will see that the water forms itself into a compact globule that easily slides off the leaf. The gabi leaf is naturally water repellent, water rolls easily off this surface or just bounces back open impact.

The natural water repellency that certain plants and animals exhibits are now the subject of extreme study by scientists. Taking their inspiration from nature, science is now developing synthetic coatings with super hydrophobic abilities.
You would think that a water repellent material would have to be as smooth as possible to slough off water. But it turns out that the opposite is true. For a material to exhibit super hydrophobic qualities, it must have a microscopically rough surface. The rough surface prevent the water from flattening, so it forms into beads that roll off; the beads often carry dirt with them


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Can You Imagine?

Posted by BlackJack On Tuesday, July 21, 2009 0 comments




Who would have ever thought about the possibility of growing a square watermelon? The Japanese! When faced with a problem of the large round fruit taking up so much space in the markets and also being harder to ship the Japanese complain to their supplier about the huge, round form. Even consumers complain about the large fruit captivating up so a lot space in their refrigerators. Being faced with this challenge, rather than thinking that it was impossible to change this; the Japanese set out to try to find a solution to the problem. And that, they did! The result, a square watermelon! Growers cultivated the melons in glass boxes and the fruit simply took on the same shape as it developed tough pretty to look at the result, however on the make financial preparations. They cost 2 to 3 time other than the normal watermelons and are bought and sell mostly in upscale markets in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan’s of Two Major Cities.


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