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Here you find lots of diverse information on plants, gardening, landscaping and home improvement.
We are currently putting together a free landcaping, gardening and home improvement classifieds listing
service for you. In the meantime, please enjoy reading about all sorts of plants for gardening and landscaping.All plants are made up of living cells, are capable of drawing energy from inorganic substances, and have no specialized sense or digestive organs. Yet a plant is not necessarily green, and it may have no roots, leaves or flowers, Flowering plants comprise only one of the 13 divisions into which botanists classify the vegetable kingdom.
The other divisions consist of more lowly and less evolved plants, such as bacteria, algae, diatoms, fungi, mosses, liverworts, horsetails and ferns. (Some microbiologists think that bacteria and fungi belong to specialized groups with no particular relationship with either plants or animals.)
The simplest plants consist of a single cell able to live, breathe, feed, grow and reproduce by itself. Many algae are in this group. But in the course of evolution, plants have become increasingly complex, the most highly evolved being the flowering or seed-producing plants. These have a well-defined structure of root, stem, shoot, leaf, flower and seed. Cultivated plants, with very few exceptions, belong with the flowering plants and ferns, but other kinds inhabit gardens and make their presence known.
The green coatings that grow on flowerpots in greenhouses and on trees are algae. Tiny flat bodies with little "cups" on top that grow on soil in damp places are liverworts. Mosses are well known and often desirable. Horsetails are weeds of waste places. Fungi are very familiar as mushrooms of many shapes, colours and sizes, and as disease-producing organisms in the forms of mildews, rusts, leaf spots and rots. Some bacteria also cause plant diseases, while some (as well as other kinds of lowly plants) are responsible for maintaining soil fertility.
Here you find lots of diverse information on plants, gardening, landscaping and home improvement.
We are currently putting together a free landcaping, gardening and home improvement classifieds listing
service for you. In the meantime, please enjoy reading about all sorts of plants for gardening and landscaping.All plants are made up of living cells, are capable of drawing energy from inorganic substances, and have no specialized sense or digestive organs. Yet a plant is not necessarily green, and it may have no roots, leaves or flowers, Flowering plants comprise only one of the 13 divisions into which botanists classify the vegetable kingdom.
The other divisions consist of more lowly and less evolved plants, such as bacteria, algae, diatoms, fungi, mosses, liverworts, horsetails and ferns. (Some microbiologists think that bacteria and fungi belong to specialized groups with no particular relationship with either plants or animals.)
The simplest plants consist of a single cell able to live, breathe, feed, grow and reproduce by itself. Many algae are in this group. But in the course of evolution, plants have become increasingly complex, the most highly evolved being the flowering or seed-producing plants. These have a well-defined structure of root, stem, shoot, leaf, flower and seed. Cultivated plants, with very few exceptions, belong with the flowering plants and ferns, but other kinds inhabit gardens and make their presence known.
The green coatings that grow on flowerpots in greenhouses and on trees are algae. Tiny flat bodies with little "cups" on top that grow on soil in damp places are liverworts. Mosses are well known and often desirable. Horsetails are weeds of waste places. Fungi are very familiar as mushrooms of many shapes, colours and sizes, and as disease-producing organisms in the forms of mildews, rusts, leaf spots and rots. Some bacteria also cause plant diseases, while some (as well as other kinds of lowly plants) are responsible for maintaining soil fertility.
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