PLANTS : THE LIFE SUSTAINER

*Script for video entitled 'China's Amzing Flora' posted by National Geographic on Youtube.

Narrated by: Peter Raven, botanist and NG Research and Exploration chairman 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmKqpypskbY

*This is a podcas...

     This year’s Institute of Horticulture Young Horticulturist of the Year competition is well under way with heats ...

One of the confusions that I could notice even for the biologists is the family names. When you visit to certain botanical gardens or nurseries, they put label on/near the plants to notify you about the basic info like common name, Latin name, family and provenance. The name for families are easy to recognize because they ended with suffix '...aceae' (pronounced "aer-see") as in Fagaceae ("Fa-gay-see") which is the family of oaks and beeches.

- CONTEST OVER -

THIS CONTEST WILL EXPIRE 24 HOURS FROM NOW

I'm giving away 10 (TEN) pieces of special + ancient + relic + FREE + like never before...

     Talking about the world records, some people have entirely devoted their lives to achieve these. By hook or by crook, they will keep trying endlessly until their names appear on the list. It’s speechless sometime to think about how far people would go to break some records; life is the next thing to worry about after the record!

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(This post is meant for students in Malaysia, so it’s written in Malay. It’s about what did I do to get accepted at RBG Kew as an intern).

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    Plants are intricate biological entities with a long evolutionary history, stretching back hundreds of millions of years. Today's plants are adapted to living in particular terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem such as desert, tropical rain forest, swamp and lake. Both ecosystems, which differ by their average temperature and annual rainfall, are largely defined by the types of plants that live there.