For a particularly disturbing view of the vast amount of plastic circulating in the world's oceans, and the impact that all of this plastic is having on us, read this article:
Best Life Magazine: Travel & Leisure: Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?
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Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Euphorbia Leuconeura
On a totally different track ... a few details on plants in my office!
Here is my office:
As you can see, I've got alot of plants ... a number of different types - around 11 or 12 plants.
My favorite plant is this one:
This plant is a "Euphorbia Leuconeura". I was particularly interested to find out what kind of plant this is so that I could get it to propogate properly. It took a bit of detective work - my Mum indicated it was a Euphorbia - which is a rather large genus of different plant types - about 2160 different species. They are generally distinguished by having a caustic, poisonous latex sap (i.e. they bleed a white latex fluid when their skin is pricked).
It took a bit of work to figure out which of the 2160 different species this particular plant actually is ... but, thanks to Google Image Search, I went through pages of images until I found one that matched my plant. I discovered that the common name is "Madagascar Jewel".
In terms of propagation, the plant propogates by creating little husky seed casings with little petals. These eventually dry and fall off the plant, where they (eventually, and with luck) generate into tiny little plants.
I haven't had much luck getting them to propogate, but I discovered that they like the early morning sun - this seems to get the plant to create the seed casings. I discovered - just yesterday - one of these plants growing in a different pot!
Here is my office:
As you can see, I've got alot of plants ... a number of different types - around 11 or 12 plants.My favorite plant is this one:
This plant is a "Euphorbia Leuconeura". I was particularly interested to find out what kind of plant this is so that I could get it to propogate properly. It took a bit of detective work - my Mum indicated it was a Euphorbia - which is a rather large genus of different plant types - about 2160 different species. They are generally distinguished by having a caustic, poisonous latex sap (i.e. they bleed a white latex fluid when their skin is pricked).
It took a bit of work to figure out which of the 2160 different species this particular plant actually is ... but, thanks to Google Image Search, I went through pages of images until I found one that matched my plant. I discovered that the common name is "Madagascar Jewel".
In terms of propagation, the plant propogates by creating little husky seed casings with little petals. These eventually dry and fall off the plant, where they (eventually, and with luck) generate into tiny little plants.
I haven't had much luck getting them to propogate, but I discovered that they like the early morning sun - this seems to get the plant to create the seed casings. I discovered - just yesterday - one of these plants growing in a different pot!
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