Different Types Of Seaweed

Speaking of easy, wandering through the supermarket before Thanksgiving, I marveled at all of the anonymous, inexpensive and ready-to-go industrial turkey giants laid to rest in bins there.

It has been widely used by humans for centuries, and continues to make important contributions to our lives. Agar is used in growing bacteria and other beneficial organisms. Liquid seaweed is a form of seaweed that won't burn plants, will keep nutrient...

Attach an aquarium heater to the aquarium. Repeat the salt water creation process until the aquarium is full. Place a large rock in the bottom of the aquarium. Press the holdfast into the rock surface so the seaweed becomes attached.

A bit of activated charcoal in the bottom of the pot can also help keep wet soil from getting funky.Constant-watering methods save time and are especially useful if you're often away.

Chokecherry also provides cover. Elderberry is considered useful as a livestock feed, while chokecherry is poisonous to cattle and sheep.The fruits of both plants have similar food uses.

Stein Carter of the University of Cincinnati Biology Department. Ferns and mosses are both examples of "primitive plants," according to J. They have not developed all the specialized systems that modern plants have, although ferns are more highly developed...

Cascade huckleberries (Vaccinium deliciosum)have bright blue berries that are, as its species name suggests, delicious. The berries hold the key to why the different botanical names exist.Blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) earn their genus based on their flowers'...

Immature Chickasaw plums, about 1/2 inch wide, are red but turn yellow as they ripen. Japanese plums almost always need a nearby Japanese, American or American hybrid plum tree to yield plums.

For instance, in fleshy fruits, seeds are dispersed by animals that eat the fruit and then excrete the seeds out. Pomes include– Both the hesperidium and pepo fleshy fruits have a leathery rind.

Plant cauliflower seedlings in an area of your garden that receives at least six hours of full sunlight each day. It features a 6-inch head with tightly wound curds and can be planted just before the last frost.

Hose-in-hose refers to azaleas featuring 10 to 12 petals, which includes the calyx. A double azalea features stamens that become petals, leading to a variable number of petals. Examples of species azaleas are azaleas native to the United States, including...

The exocarp, or outer skin; the mesocarp, or flesh and the endocarp, or inner covering make up the pericarp. The cotyledon nourishes the seed as it begins to grow and the endosperm provides nourishment as the embryo develops.

You might imagine that some natives would be specialized at surviving the winter here in the Rockies, but some other astounding plants are holding their own in my garden this year.This low-growing groundcover is extremely cold-hardy, needing no protection...

Burdock is more widespread but is not listed as invasive in California.According to an article in "Better Nutrition," milk thistle seeds are collected and used to enhance liver function whereas the leaves of burdock have been used to treat kidney disorders.An...

These brown "gumballs" are sturdy, able to survive being stepped on. The sweetgum from which its name derives is a layer of resin under the bark, which gives the tree its distinctive but non-perfumy fragrance.

These two categories of plants comprise 100 percent of the seed-plants on the planet. But some conifers are deciduous. Tiny oak flowers have both stamens, which produce pollen, and pistils, which receive the pollen and get it to the ovule inside the ovary.

A lot of the U.S. calcium smectite is mined in Georgia.Attapulgite clay soil, also called palygorskit, is used in some drilling operations because it is able to hold together even when used in saltwater during offshore drilling projects.

Fruits, by definition, are edible crops containing seeds, and they include berries, grapes, tree fruits, melons and even some crops usually thought of as vegetables. Some produce fruit only on 2-year-old canes, while others produce fruit on new wood,...

Nutans), Golden Larch (Pseudolarix amabilis) and Tamarack (L. The live oak is an example of a broadleaf evergreen.Larch trees turn yellow and lose their needles each fall.Deciduous conifers are cone-bearing trees that lose their leaves.

Although they are both produced by the wheat kernel, wheat germ and wheatgrass have very different forms, appearance and taste.The wheat plant provides high nutrition in the form of wheatgrass and wheat germ.Wheat germ comes from the wheat kernel, but...

A flowering plant is called an angiosperm. Some nonflowering plants still produce seeds; this type of plant is called a gymnosperm. Once they are exposed to a moist environment the spores can begin growing into a new plant.

When left to grow as an perennial, it formsof upright leaves that are up to 2 feet tall, a habit that sometimes leads the plant to be called. Although they're both part of the onion family and have similar leaf structures and growth habits, green onions...

Determining which plants are weeds in your garden depends on several factors.Any plant that grows where it's not wanted is a weed. A case in point, the common blue violet (Viola sororia, U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 7)...

The nut itself is liquid until it solidifies in the fall and is housed in a husk that eventually splits open. The nut itself is 80 percent oil and 4 percent sugar. The nut should break when snapped.

There are three main types of soil water - gravitational water, capillary water, and hygroscopic water - and these terms are defined based on the function of the water in the soil.Gravitational water is free water moving through soil by the force of gravity.

A pollen tube is formed and pollen is transferred to fertilize the female cone's egg. Cones when mature have an almost woody texture; they are elongated and are made up of scales. The pollen sticks to the stigma.

It may die to the soil surface in cold winters then spring back to flower on new growth. Smooth hydrangea offers its blooms right on the heels of snowball bush. Snowball bush does best with slightly acidic soil while smooth hydrangea tolerates acidic...