Plantae

Cape Sundew

Drosera capensis
Scale 6 Diat: carbon-macromolecules , Hierachy 3
Plantae, Angiosperms, Eudicots

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Play: The Cape Sundew is carnivorous, but can also use photosynthesis. Therefore it can be played as a YELLOW FOOD 1 and/or RED FOOD CHAIN 3.
Fact: The Cape sundew has long, thin leaves that roll up around trapped insects.

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Graphic by David Orrwww.davidorogenic.com
Photo by Barry Ricecalphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=187357&one=T
Drosera capensis, commonly known as the Cape sundew, is a small rosette-forming carnivorous species ofperennial[1] sundew native to the Cape in South Africa. Because of its size, easy to grow nature, and the copious amounts of seed it produces, it has become one of the most common sundews in cultivation.D. capensis produces strap-like leaves, up to […] read more

Scalesia pedunculata

Scalesia pedunculata
Scale 9 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
Plantae, Angiosperms, Eudicots

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Fact: Darwin first collected specimens of this species from Santiago Island in October 1835 on the voyage of the Beagle, and it was later named by his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker.

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Graphic by Rachel Ignotofskywww.rachelignotofskydesign.com/
Photo by Haplochromiscommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scalesia_pedunculata.jpg
Scalesia pedunculata Hook.f. is a member of the Daisy family or Asteraceae, growing to a slender tree (20m tall,DBH 20cm), and found in dense stands on the humid windward coasts of the islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal,Santiago and Floreana in the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos archipelago lies in the southeast trade wind zone, so […] read more

Welwitschia

Welwitschia mirabilis
Scale 9 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
Plantae, Gnetophyta, Gnetopsida

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Fact: The age of individual plants is difficult to assess, but they are very long-lived, living 1000 years or more.

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Graphic by Diana Sudykawww.dianasudyka.com/
Photo by Thomas Schochcommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welwitschia_mirabilis(2).jpg
Welwitschia is a monotypic gymnosperm genus, comprising solely the very distinct Welwitschia mirabilis. The plant is commonly known simply as Welwitschia, and has various common names in local languages, for example kharos or khurub in Nama, tweeblaarkanniedood in Afrikaans, nyanka inDamara, and onyanga in Herero. It is the only genus of the family Welwitschiaceae and […] read more

Satureja darwinii

Clinopodium darwinii
Scale 6 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
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Plantae, Angiosperms, Eudicots

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Fact: Darwin writes: “Very sweet smelling, plant; with a rather biting aromatic taste; used for making tea by the seamen.”

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Graphic by Robert Ballwww.robertmball.com/
Clinopodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. It is in the tribe Mentheae of the subfamilyNepetoideae, but little else can be said with certainty about its phylogenetic position. The genus name Clinopodium is derived from the Latin clinopodion or the Greek klinopodion. These were names forClinopodium vulgare. The Greek klino means […] read more

Geonoma schottiana

Arecaceae geonoma schottiana
Scale 8 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
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Plantae, Angiosperms, Monocots

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FACT: Specimens of this plant were collected by Darwin at Bahia (Salvador) in March 1832.

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Graphic by Golly Bardgollybard.blogspot.ca/
Geonoma is a genus of small to medium-sized palms native to the forest understorey of tropical Central and South America. This palm genus is one of the largest in the Neotropics.[1] Its 64 species are distributed from Mexico andHaiti in the north to Paraguay in the south; two are found in the insular Caribbean.[2] The […] read more

Phytoplankton

Desmidiales Order
Scale 2 Diat: photosynthetic , Hierachy 1
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Plantae, Zygnemophyceae, Charophyta

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Fact: Desmids are a type of green algae. They assume a veriety of highly symmetrical and attractive shapes.

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Graphic by Ernst Haeckel
Desmids (Gr. desmos, bond or chain) are an order (Desmidiales) in the Charophyta, a division of green algae that forms a sister group to the land plants (Embryophyta).[1] The desmids are often treated as members of the Zygnematales, as family Desmidiaceae.[2][3] The Desmidiales comprise around 40 genera and 5,000[4] to 6,000[5] species, found mostly but […] read more